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Portal Documents CheckIn Checkout Via TFS Client

Hi,

I have a question regarding Documents checkin and checkout via TFS Client.

As you know, methodology docs are created on the Team Portal. Document checkin checkout mechanism works perfectly fine if you perform it through the portal.

But the problem is, we can not perform the same exercise in TFS Client. It is not possible to checkin and checkout a document and put your comment related to it if you perform it in TFS Client. You can save a document in TFS Client but it only creates a new version of the document without any comment on the portal.

We need to perform checkin – checkout mechanism of a document in TFS Client and we also need to write a “Comment” before we checkin.

As far as I understand, this is not possible in TFS Client. Is it planned for future releases? Is there any workaround as of today?

Thanks,

Ertobias.

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# 1

Hello Ertobias,

We did talk about this as a possible feature for a future release but it seems unlikely that it will be done in V.Next. As of now, the only way to do checkin and checkout of documents is directly on the portal.

Thanks!

YogitaManghnani at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Team Foundation Server - Administration...
# 2

Hi Ertobias,

I don't really understand your request because it seems that when you want to access a portal document (and choose to edit it) from team explorer, this one is marked as checkout in WSS. Furthermore, when I try to close this document a dialog box allows me to save, close with undo pending changes and/or comment it.

What you could expect?

mathieu.szablowski at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Team Foundation Server - Administration...
# 3

Hi Mathieu,

I would expect the CheckIn Checkout mechanism to be integrated within TFS Client. The only dialog that I can see is "Save as" where I can only click on "Save" and "Cancel" buttons.

Thanks,

Ertekin.

Ertekin at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Team Foundation Server - Administration...
# 4

Hi,

Have you ever try to close the document without saving. In memories, word or excel will ask you to checkin or undo pending changes.

mathieu.szablowski at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual Studio Team System,Team Foundation Server - Administration...
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