This post is part of a blog series:
- Part I : Exporting TFS Work Items to Microsoft Word (via WordToTFS)
- Part II: Publishing Requirements from Word to TFS (via WordToTFS)
Steps:
- Download and install the freeware tool AIT WordToTFS from here (registration required).
- Start Microsoft Word (winword.exe). You should see a new "WordToTFS" ribbon.
- Choose the layout template you want to use (the names correspond to TFS process templates, but it’s possible to furhter customize those layout templates).
- Once, you are ready to publish, click ‘Connect‘ on the ‘WordToTFS’ ribbon and choose a team project to connect to.
- Start by creating an outline, headlines, introduction text as you would normally do when creating a requirements document in MS Word.
- Once you are ready to add a requirement, choose "Empty Product Backlog Item" (in the case of the "Visual Scrum Scrum" template; the name differs for other process template, e.g. "Requirement" in MSF/CMMI or "User Story" for MSF/Agile).
- This will insert a table with the typical fields to describe a requirement. Replace ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ with appropriate values (you can edit those defaults by clicking "Edit Default Values" on the ribbon).
- Repeat Steps 5 to 7 for additional requirements.
- Once you’re happy with your requirement(s), click ‘Publish‘ in the ‘WordToTFS’ ribbon.
- The work item is now created in TFS.
After publishing the requirement table looks smilar to this:
Notes:
- Keep in sync: After initially publishing your work items you can either change those in MS Word and re-publish those changes, or change the work items with a different TFS client and click ‘Refresh’ on the ‘WordToTFS’ ribbon to import those changes into your MS Word document.
- Images: You can insert images in the description field (if the process template is using an HTML-based field) and those will be updated as attachments:
- Test Cases with Test steps: You can enter a numbered list of steps for a Test Case, which will be translated to test steps (as they are required by Microsoft Test Manager):
Disclaimer: This MS Word integration is not part of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server. The plug-in was developed by a Microsoft Partner (AIT) and not by Microsoft itself.
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