Independent work item on Task Board. How to put in Task Category?

Question

Does anyone know how an impediment could appear on the task board? I use TFS 2013. The process template is for Scrum. I tried to put this work item on Task Category but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

You must modify the states in Impediment.xml to the same states used by Task work item, the Transitions need to be modifyed too, so copy the states and transitions from Task.xml to Impediment.xml

<STATES>
  <STATE value="To Do" />
  <STATE value="In Progress" />
  <STATE value="Done" />
</STATES>

Aditional you must add this work item type into the TaskCategory in Categories.xml

<CATEGORY refname="Microsoft.TaskCategory" name="Task Category">
    <DEFAULTWORKITEMTYPE name="Task" />
    <WORKITEMTYPE name="Impediment" />
</CATEGORY>

That's all.