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Asked: 2026-06-04T08:25:42+00:00

I am attempting to add a Requested By field to a custom Work Item

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I am attempting to add a “Requested By” field to a custom Work Item Template in TFS 2010. When I create the field in the work item, I wish to have the values restricted to a particular AD group. I’m looking for functionality similar to the “Assigned To” field in the standard templates. However, if I add this AD group to one of the TFS groups, they all get added as valid users in TFS and that is not the behavior I’m looking for. I simply wish to restrict the values for a field to an specific AD group. I’ve tried adding the AD group to the “Group” property of the VALIDUSER field definition rule, but I get the following error: 

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Error
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Error importing work item type definition:

TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator to add your account.
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OK   
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Thanks in advance!

[Update]
On further investigation, I have found that it works with certain AD groups, but not with others. For instance, it works with our “Developers Group” but not with “Domain Users”. It’s actually a fairly small subset of groups that I’ve tested that work. Again, Any help would be appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simplest way I’ve found is to use the ALLOWEDVALUES field definition rule. Add to the list of allowed values the name of a TFS Group. I have still not been able to get the AD group to work directly. But my big problem was that when I was trying to use a project group, I was putting the project name in the “[Project]\Group Name”.

    As stated here

    some people may think that “[project]” is a place holder for the
    project’s name, but it is meant as a literal.

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