Sometimes, it's useful to change the default columns of the portfolio boards. This is especially useful when you are customizing your process template and adding new fields that you wish to display on the portfolio backlog list. These changes will affect all users.
Open the ProcessConfiguration.xml
file located at C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\Process
. Find the Backlog items and then the PortfolioBacklog
node. You can see that there are six columns that show for this portfolio by default, and if you navigate to Web Access to the features portfolio backlog, these columns are currently displayed.
You are able to reorder these column nodes, or add new ones for any column you would like to display. For this sample, we are going to add the Stream of Work
and Product Code
fields that we added to the Product Backlog Item button in the previous chapter, and also remove the System.WorkItemType
field from the...