{"id":6713,"date":"2010-09-16T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2010\/09\/16\/trouble-with-work-item-links-and-model-elements-in-visual-studio-2010-ultimate\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:52:07","slug":"trouble-with-work-item-links-and-model-elements-in-visual-studio-2010-ultimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/trouble-with-work-item-links-and-model-elements-in-visual-studio-2010-ultimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble with work item links and model elements in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why aren&#8217;t linked model elements appearing in my work items?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate,&nbsp;links between model elements and work items travel in one direction only, from the element to the work item. This means that when you link an element to a work item, the linked element does not appear in the work item. To&nbsp;enable bidirectional links, install&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=192764\">Visualization &amp; Modeling Feature Pack<\/a>. This means that when you create a link from a UML model element to a work item, a link from the work item back&nbsp;to the model element will also be created. To see this link in the work item, open the work item and refresh it manually. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, bidirectional links are still not&nbsp;created automatically&nbsp;if&nbsp;you&nbsp;link&nbsp;a layer diagram element to a work item, so instead,&nbsp;create the link to&nbsp;the layer element from&nbsp;the work item. For more information, see <span><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd465152.aspx\" id=\"x_x_x_x_ctl00_MTCS_main_ctl06\"><span style=\"color: #0066dd\">How to: Link from Work Items to Model Elements<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why aren&#8217;t links to work items removed from model elements&nbsp;when I delete the links&nbsp;from the work item?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must delete the link manually from the element. When you remove a work item link&nbsp;from a model element, the link from the work item to the element is also removed. However, when you remove&nbsp;a model element link&nbsp;from the work item, the link from the element to the work item&nbsp;is not removed. For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd465152.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0066dd\">How to: Link from Model Elements to Work Items<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why aren&#8217;t linked model elements appearing in my work items? In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate,&nbsp;links between model elements and work items travel in one direction only, from the element to the work item. This means that when you link an element to a work item, the linked element does not appear in the work item. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Why aren&#8217;t linked model elements appearing in my work items? In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate,&nbsp;links between model elements and work items travel in one direction only, from the element to the work item. This means that when you link an element to a work item, the linked element does not appear in the work item. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}