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.
- In the Team Artifacts view of the Work
Items perspective, right-click the project area and select Open.
- 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.
- 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.
- Click Save to save your work item
category changes.