TFS 2010 Sync

[Gordon Muscroft]

Now I have TFS and EA Sparx "Talking" (Connected via MDG Integration)
-I have linked Work Items (Type = Requirement in TFS) to some EA Requirements.
-I can "see" the Requirements in EA.
-If I update the work item in TFS, the Work Item (Requirement) gets updated in the sparks project.
-If I update the requirement in EA, the update is overwritten next time I sync with TFS.

Question: Is there a way to update the information in EA, and have the info in TFS change? (Bi-directional sync)
(Field used: TFS Field = Description, EA Field: Notes
Also applies to the Title.....)

Thanks
Gord

[kwikman]

Hello

We have an unsolved problem with TFS and VS 2010 with EA. ( See http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1323858234)

We cant get anything under the EA Explorer/TFS menu to work, the studie dies! (TSF/EA and VS2010/TFS version management works as marketed, but not the MDG Integration)

The forum has also been rater silent about how and if they have got TFS/EA/VS2010 (or we are doing something so stupid that nobody bothers to answer:-) to work. (http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1331618565/0#2)

Could you *please* give a short list of how you get to work (specially if there are some part that is not in the documentation.)

Best regards
Kaj

[Gordon Muscroft]

Reply for Kwikman.....

Configuration: EA Ver. 9.2 (Build 922)
Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 & TFS 2010 with SP1
Project stored in SQL Server 2008.
EA source control off(IE: We are not using EA under source control.....)

Followed all the steps in EA Visual Studio integration guide.
http://www.sparxsystems.com/bin/MDGIntegrationVS4.pdf
Goal: Sync all the Requirements in EA to TFS as Work Items of type "Requirement.

Once the EA project can be seen in Visual Studio/TFS, right click on the YOUR_EA_Proj.EAP file and select "View in UML" (The one with the EA Icon.....)

You should get the EA Project Explorer window in Visual Studio/TFS.

Right click on any item in the EA Project Explorer window, and select Team Foundation Server/Work Item View.

An EA Work Item view should then appear in Visual Studio. If NO work item appears, and the EA Work Item window is blank, look for the Property icon in the EA Work Item window, click on it and insure that a Team system Project is selected...

This is working for our team. The issue for us is we can edit and save the information in Visual Studio/TFS, but once you linked an EA project to Visual Studio/TFS, all changes made in EA will be overwritten with changes made in Visual Studio/TFS....

Hope this helps...
Gord

[kwikman]

Thanx for the response.

We are doing likewise, with many different configurations.

When we try something from the TFS menu VS 2010 'dies', ie we dont' even get the Work Item window.

The only config difference I can come to thing of compared to yours is 32/64 bit. We are running on a Win 7 64-bit Client Ultimate. (Tried with same machine for tfs/vs2010/sql2008R2 and real client/server combination.)

Well, intresting to know that it SHOULD work :-)

Best regards

[Gordon Muscroft]

Just FYI...
I am running on 32 bit Vista.....
So it might be the 64 bit...

[kwikman]

Hello

And sorry for delayed answer, got booged down with other work.

We have also tried with a 32-bit machine, so do not know.

But, great to know that is is working for you, because there are others having the same problem (and probably moved to an other product) but we like (yes, it doesnt do exactly what we like but close enough and probably according to sparx answers there will be a fix in the future) the product so we stay.

Best regards and at last the sun start to do it's wonders in our part of the world :-)
Kaj

[kwikman]

Some (good) update:

We got a notice from Sparx Systemt (1.8.2012) that they have been able to replicate the problem and that they are working on it.

Hopefully there will soon be a solution to this.

Best regards
Kaj