Create a work item to submit a defect, task, or other type
of work request that the project uses.
About this task
This topic refers to the predefined layout of the work item
editor for the work item types provided with the Scrum process. Administrators
can customize the layout. Therefore, the layout that you see might
be different.
- Click the Work Items link in the
Web header.
- In the left pane, click the down arrow on Create
Work Item and select the type of work item to create.
Alternatively, click Create Work Item to create
a work item of the default type.
- Enter or select values for the following fields on the Overview tab
(asterisks identify required fields):
- Summary: A brief headline that identifies
the work item.
- Type: The type of work item, such as Defect,
Task, and so on.
- Severity: An indication of the impact of
the work item, such as Minor, Normal, Major, or Critical.
- Found In: The release that the work item
refers to.
- Filed Against: A category that identifies
the component or functional area that the work item belongs to. For
example, your project might have GUI, Build, and Documentation categories.
Each category is associated with a team area; that team is responsible
for responding to the work item.
- Description: A detailed description of
the work item. For example, the description for a defect might include
a list of steps to follow to reproduce the defect. Any descriptions
that are longer than 32KB are truncated, and the entire description
is added as an attachment.
- On the Links tab, add attachments
and subscribers, and specify related work items.
- To attach a file, click Browse and navigate
to the file location
- To add subscribers, click Add in the Subscribers area.
Enter part or all of a user's name, then select the user from the Matching
User Names list. Click Add. Subscribers
receive E-mail notification whenever someone modifies the work item.
When you create a work item, you are added as a subscriber to that
work item. To stop receiving notifications, you can remove yourself
as a subscriber by selecting your name and clicking Remove.
- To link the work item to another work item in the same repository,
in the Links area click the down arrow next
to Add and select the option that represents
the type of relationship you wish to establish. For example, you can
establish a parent-child relationship between work items; mark a work
item as a duplicate of another work item; or indicate that one work
item is blocked by another work item.
- To link the work item to another work item in a different repository,
click . The name of the project area appears in parentheses.
To link to work items in project areas on other Jazz™ Team Servers,
cross-repository communication must be configured and the project
areas must be linked.
- Click Save to save the work item.