Hi, I've created a creation wizard that will gather information from the user when they create a new team project.

I'd like to be able to set some fields of work items when they are created to the values that were entered in the wizard during project creationg.

For example, during the wizard a user will enter the project category along with name. Each bug entered will also have the project category saved in a field that is also a dimension. I don't want the user to have to enter the project category when entering bugs.

Is there any way to get the information from the wizard back into the Team Project XML? Or some way to change the Process template tasks lists during project creation to have the custom field default to a certain value?

Thanks in advance.

Ben.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it.

One thing that I was trying to do - during the Execute of my wizard I was thinking of somehow changing the WorkItem XML's and having the default value set - but I couldn't figure out if the XML's for work items was saved anywhere, loaded already? I'll try your suggestion - I think it may be the missing piece.

Thanks

How about using witexport and witimport?

Is there a similar Team Foundation set of classes that I can use that are similar to witexport and witimport that I can use programmatically in the wizard?

Is it possible to extend the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.WorkItemTracking wizard to modify the XML before it is put into Team Server?

Thanks.

Ben

Yes, there are ways to do witimport and witexport programmatically. You can use WorkItemType.Export, WorkItemTypeCollection.Import methods in object model to do it.

I do not think there are extensiblity points in workitemtracking plugin to modify it. It is actually better to modify wit xml after the workitemtracking plugin creates default workitems for the process template, because if we do it before then the workitems created in pcw will be subjected to that rules as well. Also, I do not see any significant savings in adding that code in wit plugin instead of in your own plugin.