Customizing Work Item Types on an Existing Project

Team Foundation Server includes five command-line utilities to help you in administering and authoring work item types. These command-line tools are used to customize work item types on existing projects, and the changes that were made using these tools only affect the current project.

In This Section

How to: Export a Work Item Type from an Existing Project

Describes how to use the witexport command-line tool to export a work item type definition in order to customize the work item type for an existing project.

How to: Import a Work Item Type to an Existing Project

Describes how to use the witimport command-line tool to import a work item type definition in order to start to use a customized work item type on an existing project.

Work Item Authoring Tools

Describes the command-line tools used for customizing work item types on existing projects.

Customizing Process Templates

See Also

Other Resources

Defining Work Item Type Fields

Defining Work Item Workflow

Defining the Work Item Form