{"id":4553,"date":"2012-08-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/08\/21\/introducing-an-integrated-work-item-field-reference-for-visual-studio-alm-and-tfs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:59:04","slug":"introducing-an-integrated-work-item-field-reference-for-visual-studio-alm-and-tfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/introducing-an-integrated-work-item-field-reference-for-visual-studio-alm-and-tfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted a single place to see what all the fields are that are defined in Team Foundation Server?<\/p>\n<p>Well now you can.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two new resources you can use to look up a definition and quickly see which fields are written to the relational database and which are stored in the Analysis Services cube.&nbsp;These cover all the fields defined in the process templates that Team Foundation Server 2012 provides.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms194971.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Work Item&nbsp;Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM<\/a>:&nbsp;Provides&nbsp;an index to all fields used in the default process templates that TFS 2012 provides. Each field links to a topic that describes the field and its default attribute assignments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"nsrTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj153003.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Reportable Fields Reference for Visual Studio ALM<\/a><\/span>: Provides a description of all fields that are reportable, and whether&nbsp;they appear in the cube, and&nbsp;which ones are a&nbsp;measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s a snapshot of the index:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms194971.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/4118.AlphaIndex.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For an overview of the attributes that are defined for each field, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2012\/07\/06\/work-item-field-attributes-what-you-can-and-can-t-change.aspx\">Work Item Field Attributes &#8211; What&nbsp;You&nbsp;Can and Can&#8217;t&nbsp;Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What other information would you like to have to support you in working with work item fields?<\/p>\n<p>Enter your requests in the comment field below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted a single place to see what all the fields are that are defined in Team Foundation Server? Well now you can. Here are two new resources you can use to look up a definition and quickly see which fields are written to the relational database and which are stored in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Have you ever wanted a single place to see what all the fields are that are defined in Team Foundation Server? Well now you can. Here are two new resources you can use to look up a definition and quickly see which fields are written to the relational database and which are stored in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}