This post is the forth post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide. See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” 

I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” and the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries”

We have seen in previous posts how to create a new work item and how to create and manage my queries, on this post we will see how to create a new Work Item out of an existing Work Item.

In order to create a copy of a Work Item do the following:

Step 1: Right click any of the gray parts in the source Work Item, choose "Create Copy of Work Item…" option.

Step 2: Choose the target Team Project and the Work Item Type.

What you will now have is a copy of the source Work Item, in case you will choose to create a different Work Item Type from the source Work Item Type only the sheared fields will be filled.

In the Links tab of the new Work Item you will see a link to the source Work Item.

When saving your new Work Item you will get cross links, there will be a link from the source Work Item to the new Work Item and vice versa.

Many times you will need to create Work Items that are similar, using the copy Work Item option saves a lot of Copy/Pastes and time.