Associating existing unassociated changesets with workitem in TFS

Question

I know there're powerful TFS command line tools from TFS Power tools that provide much more that can be achieved through Visual Studio integrated capabilities.

I have several changesets that aren't associated with any workitem. I would like to create a new workitem and associate these existing changesets with it.

Is this possible? I don't see any particular reason why not, but it depends whether command line tools provide such functionality.

Answer 1

Sure you can associate a work item to an existing changeset. You can do that directly in the Visual Studio IDE. Here's how:

First open the work item - and select the All Links tab:

Then click on Link to and select the changeset and click Ok:

Answer 2

Yes, read bellow.

This can be achieved from workitems links section, in your definition i don't see reason why you would want to use something else. If you are interested in some bulk solution, then Tfs has full-fledged API any tool will likely using it as well.

Following covers your case in api: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3280.tfs-2010-api-create-workitems-bugs.aspx TFS2010: How to link a WorkItem to a ChangeSet, you can use VersionControlServer.QueryHistory method to get changesets you need

For powershell this covers item creation: http://programmaticponderings.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/automating-work-item-creation-in-tfs-2010-with-powershell-continued/