Bewise Outlook Work Items Extension is a TFS 2008/2010 addin for Outlook 2007/2010
Features available in BOWIE 2010
Connect To Team Server
Connect to Team Server and select your Team Projects
Manage Areas and Iterations
Manage Project Alerts
From existing mails (integrated in the ribbon)
Create Work Item from mail :
you can define mapping between mail and work item
Attach mail to existing work item in several formats as html, msg, txt...
last selected query is saving
Upload mail attachments to WSS Team Portal
you can double click on an attchment to open it
From new mails (integrated in the ribbon) :
Download documents from WSS Team Portal and add it as mail attchments or html link
Execute project report and add it to mail attachments (several formats as web archive, pdf, excel, tiff...)
Insert work item infos and work item attachments in mail
you can select several work items
the result of selected query include all of the columns from the TFS query
last selected query is save as default query
if you select ID column of work items, a link to TFS Web Access is define (only for TFS 2010)
From a mail folder :
Right click on a mail folder, "Team"->"Manage Team Project Link" : Manage links between mail folder and Team Project. This feature allow you to map team project to mail folder and :
configure automatic creation of work item when you drag'n drop a mail in this folder
Select team project
Select work item type
Define mapping between mail and work item
Define if you want that mail will be attach to work item (several format : txt, msg, html)
Define if you want that mail attachments will be attach to work item
Define if you want that all mails of one conversation will be tracking in one work item
configure automatic upload of mail attachments to team portal
Define destination librairy
Define filter by file extensions (delimited by semicolon caracter)
Right click on a mail folder, "Team"->"Move Mail To" : Move mails to another folder depending on state of attached work item
From Calendar :
Right click on a calendar folder, "Team"-> "Link To Team Builds" : Manage Links between calendar folder and Team Builds : this feature allow you to visualize team builds in a calendar and configure the appointment color depending on the state of build.
From an appointment attached to a build, click on "Build Report" to show the TFS Web Access Report (only for TFS 2010)
From appointments and Tasks (integrated in the ribbon) :
Create work item from appointment
Download project report and add it to appointment attachments
Download documents from WSS Team Portal and add it as appointment attachments
