{"id":8465,"date":"2022-01-12T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2022-01-12T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:23:55","slug":"azure-devops-changing-work-item-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8465","title":{"rendered":"Azure DevOps \u2013 Changing Work Item Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to reorganize a lot of my work items in a way that required items not to be what they were. Fortunately, there\u2019s a mechanism to change work item type. Within the work item, click on the ellipsis to access a menu of options. Select \u201cChange type \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1101\" height=\"221\" class=\"wp-image-8466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1-1024x206.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1-768x154.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-1-750x151.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the item type you want \u2013 I record the reason I needed the new type for posterity \u2013 then click \u201cOK\u201d. Save the work item and re-open it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"401\" class=\"wp-image-8467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-2.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-2.png 588w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/word-image-2-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one thing I\u2019ve noticed is that fields that don\u2019t exist on an item type (e.g. \u201ceffort\u201d on \u201cfeature\u201d items) are still present on the new item type even when that field does not normally display (e.g. \u201ceffort\u201d on \u201cuser story\u201d items).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to reorganize a lot of my work items in a way that required items not to be what they were. Fortunately, there\u2019s a mechanism to change work item type. Within the work item, click on the ellipsis to access a menu of options. Select \u201cChange type \u2026\u201d Select the item type you want &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510],"tags":[1091,1092],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ado","tag-ado","tag-azure-devops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}