alm-rangers / show-area-path-dependencies-extension

*DEPRECATED* Show area path dependencies a team has with other teams.

Show-Area-Path-Dependencies-Extension

NOTICE - We have deprecated this extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace. The extension will continue to serve as an open source solution and sample extension on GitHub.

Agile teams do not rely on traditional project management techniques to track dependencies. This extension provides a lightweight way to manage dependencies on other teams.

Quick steps to get started

1. Navigate to your backlog and review your backlog items
2. Select the "Dependencies" tab
3. A list of all the items on your backlog should display with all their dependencies (using the predecessor or successor links)
4. Solid colored blocks are items under your area paths (i.e. on your backlog) and those with "empty" blocks are items on another teams backlog.

Contributors

We thank the following contributor(s) for this extension: Niel Zeeman and Steve St Jean.

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Contribute

Contributions to Show Area Path Dependencies are welcome. Here is how you can contribute:

• Submit bugs and help us verify fixes
• Submit pull requests for bug fixes and features and discuss existing proposals

Please refer to Contribution guidelines and the Code of Conduct for more details.

show-area-path-dependencies-extension's Issues

Update link to license in the Marketplace?

Will the the license referenced in the marketplace be updated to match the license update in the repo?

Need to fetch WI information more efficiently

I am on the VSTS team, and we are seeing that this extension is making individual calls to fetch information about each work item. With http 2.0 on, this ends up hammering our server, since we can get upwards of 100 concurrent calls for a single page. Can you change this to use the batch APIs?

Error when adding BISLinks to the columns options

An error occurs when selecting System.BISLinks as a column. The query returns with the following error:
“The specified field can not be returned as a result of query. The error is caused by «[System.BISLinks]”

Throwing constant errors on TFS 2017

I'm getting this error spam on both my test and prod servers.

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Add the ability to track different levels of backlog

As a product owner I would like to track product backlog items as well as features and epics, and the relationship / dependencies between each other.

Could not show the dependencies with customized States

Hi,
This is very helpful for us to track dependencies between user stories,
but we still have some issues.

We use customized template to create our team project, and there are some different states from default user story template, like "Ready for Dev", "In Dev":

After we test the extension, it seems to be fine with specific state, but we don't know why it doesn't work for all cases, here are some test cases for you:

1. Both of stories in "New", shows stories relation correctly.
   

2. One story in "New" and another in "Ready for Dev", only shows relation of us2.
   

3. Both of stories in "Ready for Dev", it just keep finding and we had been waiting for it over 10 mins.
   

Could you confirm the issues? or any suggestion will be helpful,

thanks.

User Story are not being shown in the extension

Active User Stories from the Agile process template are not being shown in the dependency graph