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How can you change the icon that represents a work item type in TFS Web Access? For instance, a bug appears as a page with a red squiggly line, while a task is a page with a red check mark. These look a bit too similar to us, and we'd like to differentiate them with different colored icons. I suppose we could replace the image on the TFS server with another, but what if you only wanted to replace these in a single team project?

jessehouwing
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  • How about asking the developers on that specific project to use the screen magnifier for clearer distinction between work-item types? – Klaus Byskov Pedersen Mar 10 '10 at 14:55
  • A lightly more long-winded way would be to use the TFS API (which is pretty simple) and knock together a simple interface web app to do it. – mfloryan Mar 10 '10 at 19:08

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It is possible to change the colours of the icon by updating the <WorkItemColors> configuration, as described in this answer:

The link is for TFS/Azure Dev Ops 2019, but does work for earlier versions.

The result is something like this:

Example coloured work items

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You can upgrade to TFS2010 which uses two completely different icons for bugs and tasks, but if that is not an option I would definitely go with just changing the gifs on the server.

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