Integration with Visual Studio Online (TFS On-Demand)
Team Foundation Server (TFS) integration would be great (as underlying ticket system similar to JIRA integration)!
Greetings from the UserVoice Team,
A little over a week ago we announce that the availability of the UserVoice for Visual Studio Team Services integration. We’re very excited about this feature and hope you’ve had a chance to check it out.
If not, in your UserVoice admin console, go to the Integrations page in Settings to get started today.
We’d love to get your initial reaction as to how we did with this integration. Please take a minute to fill out this quick survey.
https://goo.gl/forms/DYjg9nCZP84KKMfi1
Any additional feedback you have on this integration, feel free to respond directly to this email.
Thanks,
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Peter van Kekem commented
I'm also interested in this TFS integration. We have TFS installed on one of our own servers. Do you have an estimate when that will be ready as well?
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[Deleted User] commented
I'm very interested by the on demand version. Where can we switch this option ?
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Chris Ainsley commented
What about visual studio on-line (team foundation service)?
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Anonymous commented
we use tfs day in and out and this integration will be really valuable
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Brian Craft commented
Count me in as demand for on premise TFS! Thanks for the update, Richard.
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Nick Drouin commented
At a minimum, could we get a field for a link back to TFS? As described here:
http://feedback.uservoice.com/forums/1-general-feedback/suggestions/4569238-allow-cross-ref-links-back-into-tfs-git-jira -
Josh Nelson commented
A few other things to consider are:
- multiple forums under one domain for one TFS category (branch of the tree etc.) for things like Beta Testing etc.
- multiple domains that have 2 individual forums for one product line. There may be two ideas coming from two different forums on 2 different domains that we'd need to manage in one place in TFS. This would be the ability to associate multiple UV suggestions from different UV domains with one TFS entry. -
Trevor Terry commented
We are in the process of switching to TFS to track our feedback and Bug Reports, we are currently using Uservoice for feedback, and will start using uservoice's ticketing feature for bug reporting (Through our support department) i would at least like to have an option on each idea to "Send to TFS" which would create a TFS Work Item in a specified category, and return the WI # to the feedback idea as a note.
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Josh Nelson commented
1. Is this idea going to be a Q2 initiative for UV to create and complete or am I incorrect?
2. If there's already a TFS ticket and a UV idea come in, you would want to merge the Feedback idea into the already existing TFS ticket. How would you handle this? Duplicates could be a big issue and something we'd want to spec out before integrating. -
Josh Nelson commented
Is there a status on this? Wayland mentioned it was a short-term 2013 project.
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Frank commented
Hi Dejana,
thanks for getting back to me regarding this idea. It is also great to see that some other people / companies miss that feature.
Actually in our company we did not yet decide which tool / platform we are going to use for customer feedback. Some of our software development teams are using TFS together with Urban Turtle for agile project management. As well bug tracking is done with TFS company-wide.
Therefore it would be a clear advantage to have an integration with TFS (Josh already pointed out some issues you will face with out such a coupling) -
gabe commented
Right now we collect user bug reports from uservoice, triage them at iteration planning meetings and then manually bug reports and tasks in tfs. We also triage internal bug reports, which are input directly into tfs. If uservoice could sync the feedback items into tfs that would eliminate some redundant work we do. Our uservoice account isn't very active though. Josh Nelson seemed to have a much better usage scenario.
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Josh Nelson commented
This would be an incredible leap for our company to manage the feedback that our clients are providing and have a direct integration directly into TFS in order to display the results there!
Some of the issues:
We are a software company and have UserVoice to manage feedback for our different products. We use TFS to track all of the development-work items for our products. Currently, we have one administrator for our UserVoice account and hold separate meetings in order to disseminate the appropriate feedback to stakeholders. Then, the feedback is prioritized and implemented by manually creating TFS tickets. When the status changes in TFS, we have to manually update the applicable UserVoice idea with the appropriate status that corresponds to TFS. Sometimes, the manual updates and our process isn't as transparent to the customers as we would like and their suggestions don't always get into the right hands when we need it. For example, if we are working on redesigning reports, it would be best to gather together all of the current work items (TFS) and suggestions (UserVoice) in one system to make the best decision possible. This is the level of integrating the customer's feedback into our process that we desire and are very limited without having the ability to push the UV data to TFS automatically and provide a real-time update back to UserVoice in a timely manner. We have some manual work-arounds but we are realizing that some of the following benefits are hard to do with our current setup:
1. Real-time updates.
2. Corresponding with the clients seamlessly through all stages of the suggestion.
3. Ability to have all suggestions, defects, and work items in one location for better decision making and eliminating the silos of information throughout our company.
4. Less chance that the suggestion will be misrepresented when all of the information is stored in the location where the development work is taking place (including critically insightful comments that may have happened after the initial suggestion was manually entered into TFS).
5. Time saved to manually update a 3rd medium to host the feedback meetings and manually updating all sources of the same idea (TFS, UserVoice, and other).I'm sure I can think of more but that's a start.