To ensure that projects can be managed from the requirements definition right up to delivery and maintenance with Team Foundation Server, the idea arose to adapt the requirements formulated in MS Word to the requirement work items in TFS. The AIT WordToTFS plug-in was developed..
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Product description
Many of our customers record requirements in formal documents. Microsoft Office Word is the common choice. To ensure that projects can be managed from the requirements definition right up to delivery and maintenance with the Team Foundation Server, the idea arose to adapt the requirements formulated in MS Word to the requirement work items in TFS. AIT WordToTFS is a Microsoft Word plug-in that enables business analysts to seamlessly integrate Microsoft Word with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
With the bi-directional integration between Microsoft Word and Team Foundation Server offered by AIT WordToTFS you can easily:
Features & Benefits
Import of work items from Word documents into TFS
Automatic linking of the imported TFS work items with the Word documentUtilization of parent-child links in Word documents
Utilization of graphics in rich text fields
Republication of a document into various team projects (reuse of requirements)
Export and update of the work items in Word from TFS
Setting of user-defined default values for new work items
Utilization of area and iteration path
Adaptation of the templates to individual process templates
Conflict handling for concurrent changes
Refresh and publish selected work items
Create Test-specification and Test-Reports
Compare current content with TFS work item versions
Drop-down lists for AllowedValue fields (z.B. AssignedTo)
Auto-Link - Generates links without initial Publish
Installation note:
Please uninstall all previous versions of WordToTFS before installing a new version. WordToTFS can be removed via "Control Panel" > "Uninstall a program".
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