Enriching your Work Item Descriptions by Moving them to a HTML field
In the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template (and most likely in future process templates), Microsoft is using HTML fields with rich formatting for the work item description fields.
In VS Scrum 1.0…
- Product Backlog Items and Tasks are using Microsoft.VSTS.Common.DescriptionHtml.
- Bugs are using Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps instead.
You can customize your current process template and add a new HTML description today.
To move the data from your existing Description (Reference Name: System.Description) field to a new HTML-enabled field, you can use the TfsMoveDescription command line tool:
tfsmovedescriptions.exe /collection:<URI> /teamproject:<name> /workitemtype:<name> /newfield:<name>
Download the tool from here: TfsMoveDescriptions.exe (.ZIP, 4,54 KB)
Prerequisite: This tool requires Team Explorer 2010 to be installed.