It usually took me hours to add all tasks for my team for the next sprint in TFS. Existing UIs for this purpose were too sl-o-o-o-w, both built-in Team Explorer and Web Access (I mean Web Access for TFS 2010; 2012 is better in this context). The most annoying thing is that I usually need to specify just title and estimate for tasks but have to wait until the whole complex task entry form is loaded and then closed.
I also found bulk work items generation by means of Excel is not that convenient for addition of hierarchical (parent-child) data.
So I made a small utility for this purpose. Details and source code are here:
How to use
The main form is divided in 3 parts:
- main menu: you can select a TFS project here, specify an area and/or an iteration to filter displayed work items and select a template for tasks creation. The default template containing all required fields is created automatically for each project. You can add more templates in case of need.
- left panel: the work items tree is displayed here; it can be filtered by area and/or iteration. You also can load a selected item specifying its ID.
- right panel: tasks template is displayed here; fields that should be the same for all new tasks are listed in the top part (e.g. State); items that should be unique for each item (e.g. Title) are listed in the grid below. The grid supports pasting data copied from Excel.
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