Allocating Work Items To Yourself

This function allows you to allocate one or more work items to yourself. It changes the work item’s state to ALLOCATED so that only you can work on them. The work items are removed from the lists of all other users.

1. Navigate to the work item list.
2. Press Tab to the work item in the work item list that you want to allocate. You can press Shift with the Up and Down arrows to select more than one work item.
   Note: Press Tab, then Enter on Select Page() to select all the work items on the current page.
3. Press Enter to move the focus to the Action toolbar.
4. Press the right arrow key to move to Allocate Self () and press Enter.

   The work items are now allocated only to you, and are removed from all other user’s work item lists.