New Post: Unable to create a custom report with a query that has linked work items

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your valuable information. I am now able to pull linked items that are associated with requirement. But the problem I have is, it is creating separate building block for each linked item whereas I expected that it would generate one block for Requirement and linked items within that block as sub-section. The "Requirements Specification" layout which you have said generates test case as sub-item but it doesn't populate all the information I wanted to see.

How can I develop a custom report same as what "Requirements Specification" layout is doing but in presentable way to client.

For eg:
My custom report layout is as below
[
TFS ID: ID
TITLE - CLICK HERE TO ENTER TEXT.

• Area Path: Area Path
• Requirement Type: Requirement Type
• Priority: Priority
• Work Item Type: Work Item Type
• Description:

    Description

• STEPS:
  

     Steps
  

  CREATED ON CLICK HERE TO ENTER A DATE. BY CLICK HERE TO ENTER TEXT.
  ]
  

The report was generate as follows:
[
TFS ID: 1234
TITLE - Test Requirement
Area Path: TFS\Requirements
Requirement Type: Functional
Priority: 1
Work Item Type: Requirement
Description:

Description

STEPS:

 Steps

CREATED ON CLICK HERE TO ENTER A DATE. BY CLICK HERE TO ENTER TEXT.

]
[
TFS ID: 1212
TITLE - Test Case for TFS4WORD addin
Area Path: TFS\Requirements
Requirement Type: Requirement Type
Priority: 1
Work Item Type: Test Case
Description:

  Description

STEPS:

        1.          Step1 validating test action. Test action passed
        2.          Step2 Add testcase to word. Testcase added.

CREATED ON CLICK HERE TO ENTER A DATE. BY CLICK HERE TO ENTER TEXT.

]

But the way I wanted to customize is as follows
[
TFS ID: 1234
TITLE - Test Requirement
Area Path: TFS\Requirements
Requirement Type: Functional
Priority: 1
Work Item Type: Requirement
Description:
Description

• Linked Items:
  Test Case 1212 - Test Case for TFS4WORD addin
  Status: Failed Priority: 2
  Error Message: Separate blocks are generated for each work item.
  Description:
  Description
  STEPS:

      1.          Step1 validating test action. Test action passed
      2.          Step2 Add testcase to word. Testcase added.

  CREATED ON CLICK HERE TO ENTER A DATE. BY CLICK HERE TO ENTER TEXT.
  ]