List Work Item Fields and View Attributes Assigned to Fields

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You can generate a list of all work item fields that are defined in a team project collection by using the witadmin listfields command-line tool. You can use this list to understand the types of fields that are already defined and to select one of them for use in a new work item type or add to an existing work item type. Also, you can list the attribute assignments defined for a specific field and determine which fields are used by which team projects.

In this topic

  • View the Attributes of a Work Item Field

  • List All Fields in a Team Project Collection

  • List All Fields in a Team Project Collection that Are Not in Use

Required Permissions

For the team project collection where the work item type fields are defined, you must be a member of the Readers group or have your View work items in this node permission set to Allow.

View the Attributes of a Work Item Field

To list all fields in a team project collection

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. Change to the directory that contains the work item types that you want to list, by typing the following command and then pressing Enter.

    cd ..Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\

  3. List a work item field by typing the following command at the command prompt, and then pressing Enter.

    witadmin listfields /collection:http://ServerName:Port/VirtualDirectoryName/CollectionName /n:FieldName

    Field and attribute information appears for the named field, as follows in this example.

    Field: Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Issue
Name: Issue
Type: String
Reportable As: dimension
Use: Adventure Works (Shared Steps), AW Future (Shared Steps), AW Current (Shared Steps)
Indexed: False

    The Use parameter indicates the name of each project and the work item type where the field is used. For more information about field attributes, see Using System Fields and Fields Defined by the MSF Process Templates.

List All Fields in a Team Project Collection

To list all fields in a team project collection

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. Change to the directory that contains the work item types that you want to list, by typing the following command and then pressing Enter.

    cd ..Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\

  3. List the fields by typing the following command at the command prompt, and then pressing Enter.

    witadmin listfields /collection:http://ServerName:Port/VirtualDirectoryName/CollectionName

    Field information for all the fields for the named project collection appears.

List Fields That Are Not Being Used

To list fields that are not being used by any work item type

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. Change to the directory that contains the work item types that you want to list, by typing the following command and then pressing Enter.

    cd ..Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE

  3. List the fields that are no longer being used by any work item types by typing the following command at the command prompt, and then pressing Enter.

    witadmin listfields /collection:http://ServerName:Port/VirtualDirectoryName/CollectionName /unused

    Field and attribute information appears for each field that is not being used, as follows in this example.

    Field: Microsoft.VSTS.CMMI.TaskType
Name: Task Type
Type: String
Reportable As: dimension
Use: Not In Use
Indexed: False

Field: Microsoft.VSTSUE.Common.Flag
Name: Flag
Type: String
Reportable As: dimension
Use: Not In Use
Indexed: False

Field: Microsoft.VSTSUE.Common.Progress
Name: Progress
Type: String
Reportable As: dimension
Use: Not In Use
Indexed: False

See Also

Tasks

Add a Field to or Remove a Field from a Work Item Type

Rename a Work Item Type Field

Delete a Work Item Field from a Team Project Collection

Concepts

Using System Fields and Fields Defined by the MSF Process Templates