This is a migrated thread and some comments may be shown as answers.

Statuses not states in task board

4 Answers 100 Views
Story Board and Task Board
This is a migrated thread and some comments may be shown as answers.
This question is locked. New answers and comments are not allowed.
Alex
Top achievements
Rank 1
Alex asked on 28 Oct 2012, 07:59 PM
Is there a way I can have the columns within the task board reflect my work item statuses instead of states?

4 Answers, 1 is accepted

Sort by
0
Elena Hristova
Telerik team
answered on 29 Oct 2012, 10:25 AM
Hello Alex,  

  I am not sure what your question refers to. Could you elaborate a bit on your understanding of status vs. state?

  My confusion is caused from the fact that we assume "status" and "state" the same thing. In TeamPulse the property is named "Status" whereas in TFS it is usually called "State". When syncing with a TFS project those two fields are synced and they should follow the same workflow.

  If you want to customize the Task Board status lanes you can use the advanced project settings (check attached screenshots). To modify them you need to be a project administrator or user with granted edit project settings permission. Please note that string values should be written with the exact case as it is written in the EntityDefinition of the work item.

  You can find more information about Story Board and Task Board in the online documentation on the following links:

All the best,
Elena Peneva
the Telerik team
0
Alex
Top achievements
Rank 1
answered on 29 Oct 2012, 02:29 PM
Hi Elena,

I'm using TFS work item manager 2010 (btw) - version 1.0.0.0

When I pull up the task board... The columns are currently based on the states of my stories and tasks (active, resolved and closed). This works perfectly. However, I've added a custom column to my TFS project that I called "status" which I would prefer to see on my board. The statuses are: new, ready for estimation, ready for dev, in dev, dev complete, in qa, ready for uat, ready for deployment.

Would like to see my work items in these vertical lanes as opposed to the "states". Thanks for any help that can be offered.
0
Alex
Top achievements
Rank 1
answered on 29 Oct 2012, 08:20 PM
Hi Elena,

I just found the "group by" feature which creates horizontal swimlanes for my statuses. This now meets my needs.
0
Elena Hristova
Telerik team
answered on 30 Oct 2012, 08:07 AM
Hi Alex,

  I am happy to hear that you succeeded in managing WIM Task Board the way that suits your needs.

All the best,
Elena Peneva
the Telerik team
Tags
Story Board and Task Board
Asked by
Alex
Top achievements
Rank 1
Answers by
Elena Hristova
Telerik team
Alex
Top achievements
Rank 1
Share this question
or