Work item detail

The Work item detail shows the current and historical information pertaining to a work item artifact including attributes like the artifact ID, status, summary, description, and so on. This view also shows the list of activities associated with the work item like commits, builds, and reviews.

Work Item Detail Attributes

The step associated with the current activity is highlighted. To see the detail for a different activity, click on the associated step.

The Work Item Detail displays these attributes:
Work Item Attribute Description Location
Artifact ID The work item identifier as supplied by the source work item tracking system. Work item activity header
Work item source display name The user-defined "friendly name" alias for the work item source. Work item activity header
Updated on: The date and time that the work item was updated as reported by the source work item system. Work item summary
Work item status The current state of the work item represented by an icon and text description. Text descriptions vary based on the underlying source review system. Status types are shown in parenthesis to further clarify the status intention (e.g., Closed, Open, In Progress). Work item summary
Work item title Summary or title text from the work item. Work item summary
Work item description The full description field of the work item. Work item summary
Work item history This section details the history of updates to work items in reverse chronological order. The work item history may show changes to:
  • Title and/or Description
  • Status
  • Priority
  • User Assignment
Work item summary
Comment Comment and user profile picture of the user who created the comment. A default user avatar is depicted if the user has not defined a profile picture in TeamForge. Comment section

Work Item Associations

Work items may be associated with other activities such as commits, builds and reviews. The Work Item Detail view displays this information in the "Associations" section:
  • Commits — Commits can be directly associated to work items by referencing the work item artifact ID in the commit message. To explicitly link a commit with a work item, prepend to your commit message:

    [<artifact_id>]

    where the artifact_id is the ID of the work item in the originating source. You may specify more than one work item in your commit message.

  • Builds — Builds are associated with work items through the commit associations that they both share in common. Builds are identified by the source display name (user inputted) and build ID. Builds are linked to the corresponding Build Detail page. See Build detail for information about the build details.
  • Code reviews — Work items are associated with reviews through the commit associations that they both share in common. See Associate code commits with other items.