TFS2010 - How can you change the "State" for a Task?

Question

We are using Tasks to track individual development items and the "out of the box" configuration gives us only 2 states - Active and Closed. We would like to change it to:

1. Assigned
2. In Development
3. In Test
4. Ready for Production
5. Closed (In Production)

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? We've been through everything in the Admin site. I fine changing it in the DB if necessary but am not sure what should be changed - or if it is even in the DB.

TIA

Answer 1

Those are defined by the project template you selected when you created your project (MSF Agile for instance).

To customize, you can export your existing template(s), modify as needed, then import them back in.

Here is the MSDN link for customizing work item types. And here is the link for changing the workflow of a work item type (seems like you'd need to do this too).