Smart Outlook4DevOps – Creating Work Item from Mail

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In this video, we will show you how to create a work item from an email. We start by selecting the desired email from inbox or any other folder that holds our desired email. Next, we click the new work item from mail option in the ribbon bar. In the new work item options window, we start by selecting the type of work item we want to create. There are two check boxes in this window. If we select the first check box, our mail would be attached to the new work item that we are going to create. The second check box, which is selected by default is used to attach the files that came as attachments with the selected email to the work item being created. In the create work item window, the subject of the email becomes the title and body of the email becomes the description for the new work item. We can also set additional properties for the new work item using this window. We have created a work item using an email. Let’s watch our work item in the team project. This is our team project viewed through web access. And this is the work item that we have just created using an email.

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Smart Outlook4DevOps – Inserting Work Item Table in Mail

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This video shows how to insert a work item table in an email. The relevant option is only available in the new mail window. So let’s invoke this window. In the new mail window, there is an additional option that does not appear in the ribbon bar under the smart outlook for TFS tab. It is used to insert a table of work items in the message. Let’s see how it works. The work item table has been added in the mail window.

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Smart Outlook4DevOps – Connecting Outlook to a Team Project

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This video demonstrates how to connect to a Team project. Initially, when Outlook is not connected to any team project, the options in the ribbon bar are disabled. We click the connect option to start the connection process. We can select the desired team foundation server using the servers button. If the desired team server is not on the list, then we can add it using the add button. We have connected Outlook to the desired team project.

Now if we click the project info option, it shows that team project’s name. The options in the ribbon bar have become enabled. The task options still disabled are because we are currently in the email section. When we move to task section, these options would become enabled.

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