How to add edit items to the predefined lists in TFS Work Items

Question

I am trying to follow this article to do the same for adding a new State to a particular project's Bug work item. By default I can only see

. I wanted to add a new state, "On Hold"

But I perhaps followed it wrong and ended up getting

The error says "Open Transition Active~On Hold to add at least one Reason." How do I open that transition and where do I add one reason. What is the reason it is talking about? I only want to add a new state.

Thanks for your time...

Answer 1

Double click the Active~On Hold Transition , select the Reasons tab and type in at least one reason.

After saving the .wit file, you must click Refresh from the Team Explorer menu in order to see changes.

Answer 2

In the work item editor, double click on the Transition between your Active and On hold states. Under 'Transition Detail' you should see 'From: Active' and 'To: On Hold'. Change 'From: Active' to blank so it should show 'From: '. Now save the editors, click 'refresh' from the Team Explorer menu and any new bugs you create will have 'On Hold' as an option for the state.