Do you control the drop down list value for Assigned To field?

Last updated by LeiXu almost 11 years ago.See history

The default WIT doesn’t control the valid drop down items in Assigned To filed, this will introduce unnecessary items to be shown in the list which will make your users confused, e.g. TFSBUILD, tfsBuildService should never be used to assign a job. UnnecessaryValue Figure: Bad Example – shown unnecessary values

You can add the following XML in the Assigned To filed definition to control the valid values:

<FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String" reportable="dimension" syncnamechanges="true"> <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE /> <REQUIRED /> <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE /> <VALIDUSER /> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true" filteritems="excludegroups"> <LISTITEM value="Active" /> <LISTITEM value="[project]\xxxxDepNamexxxxGroup" /> </ALLOWEDVALUES> </FIELD>

Figure: Use ALLOWEDVALUES to control the values in Assigned to field

ShowNecessaryUser Figure: Good Example – shown necessary values

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