Allow for updating process templates on existing projects in TFS
To keep up with improving processes, there needs to be a migration path for existing templates to be upgraded to new templates. Some information in work items may be lost when mapping these to new work item types of the new templates, but this may well worth the benefits of moving to a newer process. Creating a new team project is not always feasible, especially if the source code versioning needs to be in place.
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R Philip Rogers
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I was able to migrate one of our Agile 4.0 projects to Scrum 2.0 by following the steps in this blog by Martin Hinshelwood.
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Jonathon Stevens
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i'm confused as to why this still is here, this already happens in 2012?
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EeKay
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When trying to import a custom WIT definition to an existing TFS project i get the error:
TF237113: You don't have enough permissions to complete the import operation.
(I read that this still isn't possible? source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/TFService/thread/fef6afd3-2093-4026-bdea-f502b1aa4d43)Any updates on this since i really need to update the WIT for a scrum template based project
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Charles Sterling
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Please look at the 2012 RC...Much of this was added and the team would like to verity the implementation is working for people.
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Manish Jain
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Thank you for posting this idea. TFS/ALM team - considering # of people/team suffering from lack of this feature, it should be considered for vNext. This is something basic and should be priority over any new features.
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Visual Studio ALM Team
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Thanks guys. We hear this one a lot and it's definitely something we're considering. That said, we're not planning a full "migration" tool in vNext.
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Folks -- I've merged the ideas. First time doing it, so hopefully I did it right. :-)
-Siddharth (Program Manager on TFS) -
Deepak Chitnis
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Daniel is right. Sorry, did not see it earlier before posting. However, the extra explaination could be helpful to understand the issue. Is there a way to merge these 2 ideas?
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Daniel Steiner
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same idea as this here "support upgrading to newer process template version for existing team projects"
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Daniel Steiner
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why have the original author of this idea been overriden by VS ALM Team ?
replacing the original author also prevents update notification of this idea. I don't think that there're some real technical reason to replace the author when the visualstudioalm customer feedback had been merged into visualstudio customer feedback