Question

I have my custom field of string type with predefined set of values: “1 – Cool”, “2 – Good”, “3 – Average”,…

Now it is necessary to remove “2 – Good” value and rename “3 – Average” into “2 – Average”.

I see easy solution: just delete 2 existing “2 – Good” and “3 – Average” and create the new “2 – Average”.

Question:

Q1: What will happens with issues that contain values to be deleted? Probably, system won’t accept such work item change?

Q2: What is a good approach to do what I need?

Thanks a lot! Any thoughts are welcome!

Answer 1

A1: The value in the work items is stored as test, so changing the WIT won’t change the value for existing work items. You will get an error if you open a work item with the value 2-Good and try to save it. The user needs to choose a new valid value before the wi can be saved.

A2: You can use Excel to do a bulk edit of all the work items and modify its values to get a new valid value.