New Post: Word freezes when opening layout designer
Sorry for the delay replying. Something has to have changed if it loaded before and does not load now. Can you try uninstalling and making sure it has completely gone before installing it again? Can...
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Hi, Short update I didn't succeed in resolving the issue on my machine, but I tried installing the add-in on a clean machine and it worked, so its indeed an issue with my machine On the new machine the...
View ArticleNew Post: Word freezes when opening layout designer
Well, I am glad you got it to work, but I am really puzzled as to why the layout designer freezes Word for you. I am not too sure what to suggest. Can you get a managed call stack perhaps to see where...
View ArticleNew Post: Word freezes when opening layout designer
Sure, Could you assist with some directions for achieving that stack?
View ArticleNew Post: Word freezes when opening layout designer
You could try attaching to the Word process from Visual Studio. Unfortunately the PDBs are not included in the installer so I am not sure how much info you will manage to get, but it is worth a try....
View ArticleNew Post: Use of markdown in plain text fields to define Word formatting upon...
Hi, Just wanted to share an idea that crossed my mind. Currently, plain text fields do not have any definite way to apply formatting that would be both human-readable in plain text and allow easy...
View ArticleNew Post: Publish work items back to TFS from word
Was trying Word plugin for TFS. Can we have a facility to publish items from word back to the TFS? We need this because we capture requirements in word documents and send it approval of client. Once...
View ArticleNew Post: Publish work items back to TFS from word
This is something which is not currently supported. It is something we would like to add, but I cannot tell you when it might happen. The only way to do it now would be to work the other way around,...
View ArticleNew Post: Publish work items back to TFS from word
Thanks Rob for quick response. Do you have any suggestions about how do we manage requirements with TFS 2012 if we are capturing requirements in word document. We want to have full traceability. I am...
View ArticleNew Post: Publish work items back to TFS from word
You would need to find a suitable mapping of work item types. For example you might use the User Story as a requirement. If you want a hierarchy of requirements then you could create a tree of User...
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
Hi, I'm wondering why there's no source code available for this project. One CodePlex requirement is to host the source code for a project on the site. I tried to use your add-in on a german TFS...
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
Hello Kalle, I am afraid I don't know the answer to the source code question. However, if you tell me what the error messages are I can see if I can help you with a solution. Regards Rob
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
Hi Rob, I try to import a user story with several linked tasks (link-type = child, on german the link-type is called: "Untergeordnet"). On "Adding the selected work items to the document" I get the...
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
The error dialogue has a Details button which will show the stack trace, can you share that with me? Thanks Rob
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
My error dialogue does not have a detail button. Some other error dialogues have one, but the detail-text is always the same as the message itself. There's no strack trace. :-( But in the meantime I...
View ArticleNew Post: Sections between different building blocks
Hello, I'm new to your add-in and currently I'm playing a bit. Is it possible to define static (layout / text) sections in the template, that won't get replaced? For example: Introduction <-- static...
View ArticleNew Post: Import one work item only (not by query)
Hi again, one idea for making it easier to import work items: For us it would be nice to enter just one work-item ID in the import-dialog (where currently one has to select a query). We're planning to...
View ArticleNew Post: Static sections between different building blocks
You can put any static text you like in the building blocks, just remember that the static text will be repeated every time the building block is inserted. Regards Rob
View ArticleNew Post: Import one work item only (not by query)
It has been mentioned before, it is not particularly high on the priority list though. Regards Rob
View ArticleNew Post: No source code available
That is very strange. I don't think this is related to link type name as the code has no knowledge of these. Does it work correctly with other simpler queries? The fact that the error message is in...
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