Does Team Foundation Server support “packaging” of work-items?

Question

Consider this scenario:

• The project manager orders 10 bug fixes from the developer team.
• 10 work-items are added to Team Foundation Server.
• These work-items are then put in an order-form.

Would it be possible to automate the last step? Something like creating a bag of work-items that can then be pulled into a Word document?

Answer 1

Sounds like something WordToTFS would help you with.

It's not yet fully automated, but you can import a specific list of work items and merge them into a document.

Answer 2

Keep an eye on upcoming ALM Rangers Word4TFS plugin: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/tags/tfswp/

Answer 3

Commercial offering: TeamSpec

Might be worth downloading the trial version and seeing if it does what you want.

Answer 4

You can connect MS Word and TFS using following tool:

http://www.smartoffice4tfs.com/pages/smart-word-features

Answer 5

The TFS client includes plugins that can open work items in Excel - you can embed the Excel table in a Word document. In that way you could pull a known work-item-query's results into a Word document.

(Not sure if this is really a programming question, though...)