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Nagesh Chopra
Nagesh Chopra

Reputation: 121

How can TFS 2010 aggregate changeset associations/links from child work items to a parent work item

I am using TFS 2010.

Is it possible to aggregate changeset associations/links from child work items to a parent work item, so that (for example) a requirement gets automatically linked/associated to all the changesets linked to its child tasks?

I had an impression and I was expecting that probably TFS Build service will automatically do this job. But now as I trialed with TFS Build, it does not seems to be doing anything for rolling up (and aggregating) changeset associations from child work items to parent work items. I think it is only associating the new/recent changesets to the current build.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1381

Answers (3)

pantelif
pantelif

Reputation: 8544

Here is an excellent article by B.Hodges, that depicts how you can retrieve the connection between work items & changesets under a given source control path, by using the ILinking service.
You could use this example as a basis in order to build a custom tool that gets your job done. To my best knowledge there isn't such tool available, so I think your best bet is to implement what you need with TFS-SDK.

The excellent tool proposed by @KMoraz aggregates relations solely within context of WorkItems, so you 'd be missing the changeset-part.

Upvotes: 0

KMoraz
KMoraz

Reputation: 14164

Try TFS Aggregator

Example Uses

  • Update the state of a Bug, PBI (or any parent) to "In Progress" when a child gets moved to "In Progress"
  • Update the state of a Bug, PBI (or any parent) to "Done" when all children get moved to "Done" or "Removed"
  • Update the "Work Remaining" on a Bug, PBI, etc with the sum of all the Task's "Work Remaining".
  • Update the "Work Remaining" on a Sprint with the sum of all the "Work Remaining" of its grandchildren (i.e. tasks of the PBIs and Bugs in the Sprint).
  • Sum up totals on a single work item (ie Dev Estimate + Test Estimate = Total Estimate)

Upvotes: 1

MikeDouglasDev
MikeDouglasDev

Reputation: 1351

The linking of the workitems to the changesets and builds are stored in the relational warehouse database. You can create a query to retrieve the information.

This MSDN page shows how the builds link to the changesets and then to the work items.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244691.aspx

Upvotes: 0

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