Process editor is not updating

Question

I am creating a customized process template. I downloaded the MSF Agile 4.2 process template and changed the name and so on.
I wanted to add some queries and some default work items.
The first change I make after loading the ProcessTemplate.xml is saved just fine. But when I proceed doing other changes these changes are not saved.
After saving the Process Editor asks to reload the Template as it seems to have changed outside the editor, the changes are still cached somehow (changes visible in the process editor) but the changes are not persisited in the xml files.
For example when I try to delete a query, the corresponding .wiq file is remaining and the entry in the workitems.xml file is still there.

I am using VS2008 Team Suite SP1 and Power Tools October 2008

Does anyone else have this problem or knows what causes this problem?

Answer 1

Hi Wuslon,

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I have successfully reproduce the issue on my machine. It seems to be a bug for TFS power tool. So I created a connect bug for it. Here is the link:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=496823

The issue seems happens the process template file was saved before. The first time save will always work. So currently to workaround the issue, you can close and open the process template xml file again to keep your changes being saved in the first time save.

I will let you know if there is any update on this issue.
 

Hongye Sun [MSFT]

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Answer 2

Update: this issue has been fixed in the upcoming release of process editor 2010.

Hongye Sun [MSFT]

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