{"id":723,"date":"2011-03-23T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2011\/03\/23\/moving-work-item-description-fields-to-html\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:02:14","slug":"moving-work-item-description-fields-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/moving-work-item-description-fields-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving work item description fields to HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/vstsblog\/default.aspx\">Neno&rsquo;s<\/a> been blogging a lot this month, and many of his posts have helpful tools associated with them.&nbsp; The post below caught my eye as particularly useful.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll be using HTML fields more going forward, and he has a tool to help you move your existing work items to use an HTML field for the Description.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/vstsblog\/archive\/2011\/03\/22\/enriching-your-work-item-descriptions-by-moving-them-to-a-html-field.aspx\">Enriching your Work Item Descriptions by Moving them to a HTML field<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/vstsblog\/archive\/2010\/07\/21\/microsoft-releases-visual-studio-scrum-1-0-process-template.aspx\">Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template<\/a> (and most likely in future process templates), Microsoft is using <strong>HTML fields with rich formatting<\/strong> for the work item description fields.<\/p>\n<p>In VS Scrum 1.0&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Product Backlog Items<\/strong> and <strong>Tasks<\/strong> are usingMicrosoft.VSTS.Common.DescriptionHtml. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Bugs<\/strong> are using Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/vstsblog\/archive\/2009\/01\/11\/using-rich-html-descriptions-instead-of-plain-text.aspx\">customize your current process template and add a new HTML description<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/vstsblog\/archive\/2011\/03\/22\/enriching-your-work-item-descriptions-by-moving-them-to-a-html-field.aspx\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neno&rsquo;s been blogging a lot this month, and many of his posts have helpful tools associated with them.&nbsp; The post below caught my eye as particularly useful.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll be using HTML fields more going forward, and he has a tool to help you move your existing work items to use an HTML field for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-foundation","tag-tfs-2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Neno&rsquo;s been blogging a lot this month, and many of his posts have helpful tools associated with them.&nbsp; The post below caught my eye as particularly useful.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll be using HTML fields more going forward, and he has a tool to help you move your existing work items to use an HTML field for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}