{"id":1741,"date":"2013-11-18T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/11\/18\/smartoffice4tfs\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T22:04:26","slug":"smartoffice4tfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/smartoffice4tfs\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartOffice4TFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago one of our great partners, eDev Technologies (makers of InteGREAT \u2013 an excellent formal requirements management tool for TFS), released a new set of tools called SmartOffice4TFS.\u00a0 Whereas InteGREAT is a pretty comprehensive requirements suite, SmartOffice4TFS is intended for teams with a less formal process but who still need to be able to manage requirements as documents.<\/p>\n<p>SmartOffice4TFS helps bridge the gap between the work that the development team is managing in TFS and stakeholders\/customers\/vendors\/etc. that need a document.\u00a0 To make SmartOffice4TFS even more attractive, eDev Technologies is offering a 40% discount to MSDN subscribers through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>There are two parts to SmartOffice4TFS \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartoffice4tfs.com\/pages\/try-smart-word\">SmartWord4TFS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartoffice4tfs.com\/pages\/try-smart-visio\">SmartVisio4TFS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SmartWord4TFS<\/strong> allows you to export TFS work items\/requirements into document templates, update edit those documents and publish updates back into TFS.\u00a0 It enables full round tripping.\u00a0 This enables you to produce standard requirements documents from data in TFS and author TFS requirements online or offline.\u00a0 Meanwhile, you get all the capabilities with MS Word \u2013 like SharePoint workflows for review and approval processes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/0458.image_thumb_276435B8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15822\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/0458.image_thumb_276435B8.png\" alt=\"Image 0458 image thumb 276435B8\" width=\"804\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/0458.image_thumb_276435B8.png 804w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/0458.image_thumb_276435B8-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/0458.image_thumb_276435B8-768x491.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SmartVisio4TFS<\/strong> has similar abilities but designed for working with diagrams.\u00a0 It enables you to link work items to individual elements of your diagram and can color the shapes on your diagram based on the state of the related work item.\u00a0 Of course, it supports the same handy round tripping with TFS that the Word add in does.\u00a0 As a really cool bonus, SmartVisio4TFS can process your flow diagrams and automatically generate test cases that cover all the branches in your process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/1854.image_thumb_36C046EF.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15823\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/1854.image_thumb_36C046EF.png\" alt=\"Image 1854 image thumb 36C046EF\" width=\"804\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/1854.image_thumb_36C046EF.png 804w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/1854.image_thumb_36C046EF-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/1854.image_thumb_36C046EF-768x331.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad to see more cool products from eDev.\u00a0 I encourage you to check them out.\u00a0 You can learn more at: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.smartoffice4tfs.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartoffice4tfs.com\/\">http:\/\/www.smartoffice4tfs.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget to ask about your <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/dd347470\">40% discount for MSDN subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago one of our great partners, eDev Technologies (makers of InteGREAT \u2013 an excellent formal requirements management tool for TFS), released a new set of tools called SmartOffice4TFS.\u00a0 Whereas InteGREAT is a pretty comprehensive requirements suite, SmartOffice4TFS is intended for 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