How do I get a scheduled export every night

Question

Hi all,

We have a 4rd party web application which we use internally to display bug data to the rest of the company.  I need to be able to export my TFS work items on a nightly basis using a scheduler or similar.

Is this possible? Would it be easier to use the API?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Check out:

http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/ 

And

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f854dd59-8eeb-4673-8d9a-ae012989bfa2 

Or dive into the Work Item Tracking API and roll your own adapter:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb179850.aspx

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Answer 2

Hi msbaker,

How about the issue now?

Jesse has provided some information in the reply, is there any help of this issue?

If anything is unclear, please free feel to let me know.

Best Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
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Answer 3

Hi,

using API you can do almost everything you need ;-) If it is easy? that depends on your knowledge of TFS API and the requirements you have. If you just need to export some work items from TFS nightly and import them to a SQL DB, Access or as xml file without UI it would be really very simple ;-)

Regards, saludos