Work Item Type editor: multi-select dropdown list

Question

Hi,

in our customized work item types we need dropdown lists with the ability to select multiple values.
As an example lets say we need a field to specify customers that committed an incident. Our customers list contains 10 customers.
3 of this customers report the same incident. We create a work item of type bug to track this incident. Now we need a drop down list with checkboxes where we can check those three customers.

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Regards, Matze

Answer 1

Hi Matze,

Nice display name! 

I guess you are after the multi value work item selector control. 

This is not available out of the box from Visual studio Process Template, however a custom control can be downloaded and used from the community project on codeplex here. http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Multivalue%20control&referringTitle=Home

HTH
Cheers, Tarun

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Answer 2

Hi Tarun,

thank you. A little tricky to define the list for this control and to request the work item by that field but it works.
Hopefully Microsoft will enhance the capabilities of the work item type eddi in future versions.

Regards, Matze

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Regards, Matze

Answer 3

Hi Matze, 

Thanks for your post.

For this scenario, I suggest you submit it as a suggestion to User Voice site at: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio. Microsoft engineers will evaluate them seriously. 

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John Qiao [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Thank you for writing back with your feedback Matze. And as recommended by John, please do share your feedback or possible feature enhancement suggestions on the visual studio user voice site. http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio

Regards,

Tarun

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