Reuse Work Items

• Reuse Work Items work the same way as Copy Work items, but for a different purpose.

• In Copy Work Items, users copy Work Items from the current Team Project to another Team Project

• In Reuse Work Items, users fetch Work Items from another Team Project and bring them into the current Team Project.

• In reality new Work Items are created in both copy and reuse but with all the properties of the source Work Items.

• The source Team Project can also be the target Team Project. i.e. Users have the option to reuse Work Items from the same Team Project or another Team Project.

 

The process to reuse Work Items is elaborated in the following steps:

 

1. Open the target Team Project in which the Work Items are to be reused.

2. Click on the Reuse Button on the Browse Page.

 

3. Set the Source TFS information and then click the Input Type option in the window.

 

4. Select the relevant baseline.

 

5. Select the desired Work Items and click the Options option in the window.

 

6. Finalize the Option settings and click the Reuse Button.

 

7. The baseline of the selected Work Item is created

 

8. The newly created baseline is automatically opened.