Multiline Plain Text Field - a custom work item control

Azure DevOps extension

Usage

This custom control allows you to add a simple multiline plain text field with read only option. You can define it's height by providing a number of rows and set the field readonly based on the 'ReadonlyField' value (true/false). A field's width is set automatically to fill your work item form. Text is stored without any formatting as plain text with the exception being new line special symbol: /n

This extension requires you to provide a field reference to store a value. It does not hold any value itself. You can create a new field specifically for that and hide it from the work item layout. The main purpose of this extension is to have a multiline text field WITHOUT formatting. So, the recommended field type is string field, either singleline or multiline text. The tricky part is that in Azure DevOps creating a multiline text field in GUI actually creates an HTML field. There is an optional field that helps to set the multiline plain text field as 'read-only' based on the 'ReadonlyField' field value (true/false).