Defining categories that work items can be filed against

Categories identify the various components or functional areas of your project. Each category is associated with a team area whose members are responsible for developing that component. The categories that you define appear as the choices available in the Filed Against field in the Work Item Editor.
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When you create a work item you set its category attribute. Members of the team area associated with that category receive notifications when the work item is created or modified. If your process includes multiple timelines, you can specify a different association for each timeline. The process defined for the associated team area is the process that users follow for processing the work item.
  1. In the Team Artifacts view of the Work Items perspective, right-click the project area and select Open.
  2. Click the Work Item Categories tab. To create a category and add it to the project area, click Add Category. Enter a name for the category and click OK. To nest a new category within an existing category, select the existing category before clicking Add Category. The new category appears in the table of categories and associated team areas. By default the new category is associated with the team area that is associated with the top-level category.
  3. To associate a category with a team area, select the category, select the team area, and click Associate. The default timeline is <any>, meaning that the association applies to all timelines. If your process includes multiple timelines, you can specify a different association for each timeline. To apply different associations to different timelines, select a timeline before clicking Associate. By default, categories are visible to all users. To limit visibility of a category to members of the team that is associated with the category, remove the check from the checkbox.

    In the table of categories and associated team areas, the associations change when you select different timelines. When a user creates a work item, it is assigned to a team area based on its category and the timeline of its Planned For iteration.

    To remove an old category from the table, select it and click Archive. To view archived categories, click Show Archived. Archived categories appear greyed out. To restore an archived category, right-click it and select Unarchive.

    You can move a category from one spot in the hierarchy to another by dragging and dropping it.

  4. Click Save to save your work item category changes.

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