Creating Skins
The default skins are useful, but TeamSpec becomes especially powerful when you
create your own skins. That way you can tailor the organization of your work items
to the needs of your specific document. To begin, load the first work item you want
to add to your document to the canvas (to learn more about sending work items to
the canvas, see The Canvas Tab). Now, by dragging
and dropping from the canvas, add the information from the work item in the layout
that you want the skin to have. For example, say we want to create a new skin that
is a bulleted list containing the work item's title, description, work item type,
and state. I start a bulleted list in in word and then drag the work item title
from the canvas to the first bullet.
Then I navigate to the end of the line, making sure that the cursor is no longer
in the title field, strike enter and then tab to create a new child-node in my list.
Drag the work item's description to this new node. I do the same for the work item
type and state so that I have the work item represented in my document the way I
want subsequent work items to be referenced by my new skin.
Then highlight the whole work item reference, click the "Skins" button in the TeamSpec
ribbon bar, and select "Create New Skin." This will open the "Create New Skin" window.
Enter a name for your new skin in the first field. Verify the work item fields that
you want represented in the second field. Choose the path at which you want your
new skin saved from the drop-down menu in the final field. You can change this path
in Managing Skins.
When you are ready, click create to save your new skin. Your new skin will
now be added to the list of available skins and will behave just like the default
skins.
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