Rename work item type fails

Question

In TFS2010/TFSPowerTools2010/Process Explorer I am creating a custom process template. I define a new work item type (WIT) called "Enhancement" copied from the CMMI "Change Request" WIT.

Then I want to rename the friendly field name of the work item type "System.Title" (called "Title") to "Summary".

When I upload my custom process template to the TFS server and create a team project, and then create a new Enhancement, the info in the required field text still shows :

"TF20012: Field "Title" cannot be empty.

Why ?

(I want to see "TF20012: Field "Summary" cannot be empty.)

Answer 1

You aren't able to rename a system field like System.Title. It's used by other work item types across the team project collection and the server instance. It also has to be filled in by the default rules. You can rename the "label" that gets shown to the end user by going to the layout tab of the work item type editor (in the TFS Power Tools) and find the control and change it's label attribute but leave the field the same.