{"id":4213,"date":"2006-02-24T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2006\/02\/24\/working-around-not-being-able-to-delete-a-work-item-type\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T08:53:00","slug":"working-around-not-being-able-to-delete-a-work-item-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/working-around-not-being-able-to-delete-a-work-item-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Working around not being able to delete a work item type"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following question<\/a> came up in the forum:  “How do I delete the custom work item type that I created?”  Tony Edwards posted the following.  One other thing that comes to my mind is to have a second server to use for experimentation before applying changes to the production server.<\/p>\n

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It is not possible in v1 [to delete work item types].  This question came up recently and Bill Essary gave the following guidance for mitigating the problem:<\/p>\n

 Here are a few things that you can do:<\/p>\n

 1)   Change the name of the type to something like “(Deprecated) Bug” so that users know not to use it<\/strike><\/p>\n

 2)    Add an attribute to the WIT that stops users from creating a new Work Item of that type.  If your initial workflow state is “active,” the attribute would be added to this transition<\/p>\n

      <TRANSITION from=”” to=”Active” not=” “[global]Team Foundation Valid Users”> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Update 8\/21\/06]<\/strong>  Unfortunately, work item types cannot be renamed in v1, so #1 above is incorrect.<\/p>\n

[Update 4\/17\/09]<\/strong>  In TFS 2008, you can delete work items and work item types using the destroyWI and destroyWITD commands in tfpt.exe in Team Foundation Server Power Tools for 2008<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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