Link work items across collections, TFS 2012

Hello,
Is it possible to link work items across collections? We have items reported in one collection which are triaged, routed to the correct department where a new bug is opened in the corresponding collection, then closed in the original collection. We
would like to have a direct link between the 2 items. Is there an existing way to do this?
Thanks

Hi Ajn,ny,
Thanks for your post.
As EIKort said, TFS not support link work items in different collections. You need create new bug in the same collection, then create link between work items.
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Hi Tarun,
I'd like to know the tools that you used in CodePlex. Generally, CodePlex project is not supported in MSDN forum, and you can post your questions and concerns in the issue secton of the project.
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We are using TFS 2012 and need to create a report (either excel or SSRS) that shows all the user stories under the current sprint and any linked child items across two projects. I can do this easily per project in VS and open it in excel but excel won't
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Hi Vik,
Thanks for your post.
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For more information about work item query TFS API, please refer to:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130306.aspx.
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I urgently require some help with this problem please.
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Hi RegManteaw,
Thanks for your reply.
We can get the wanted Bug work items and Task work items using
WorkItemCollection, you should use the logic code to handle which Task work items linked to which Bug work item. For example, I defined 5 Bug work items within “b1” tag, and 10 Task work items within “t1” in my test
team project, then I run the below code snippet to get that Bug/Task work items and link 2 Task work items to one Bug work item.
TfsTeamProjectCollection tfs =
new
TfsTeamProjectCollection(new
Uri("collectionURL"));
tfs.EnsureAuthenticated();
WorkItemStore workitemstore = tfs.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
try
// get “b1” bug work items(5) from test team project
string wiql =
"SELECT [System.Id] FROM WorkItems WHERE [System.TeamProject] = 'teamprojectname'
AND [System.WorkItemType] = 'Bug' AND
[System.Tags] CONTAINS 'b1'";
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string wiql2 =
"SELECT [System.Id] FROM WorkItems WHERE [System.TeamProject] = 'teamprojectname'
AND [System.WorkItemType] = 'Task' AND
[System.Tags] CONTAINS 't1'";
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for(int
i =0;i<=4;i++)
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RelatedLink(linkTypeEnd, Twic[(i * 2 + 1)].Id));
Bwic[i].Save();
catch(Exception
e)
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Hi divya,
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Pasted images in work item HTML fields sometimes get lost

I have the curious problem that sometimes the images which have been pasted to HTML fields of work item (e.g. Description field) get lost. SQL data analysis showed that this only happens in ~4% of the cases (16 missing, 443 ok).
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Thanks for your post.
What’s the version of your TFS and VS?
According your description, it seems the image HTML text not stored correctly in TFS database for that work items. If you paste the image the same ‘issue’ work item’s Description field again, the image can shows correctly in this same
work item?
Do you mean this issue only happened when you paste image to work item field in TFS Web Access? If you paste image to work item field using VS, all the work items are correctly?
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Our team is using VS2013 and TFS 2013, and in our daily work we often open a TFS query, then we need to open a work item, and we often need to copy the ID, for example, to the email.
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Hi Lei Yang
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Hi Guys,
Scenario 1:
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Scenario 2:
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between 2 TFS 2013 servers. Work items get synced but the
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Hi Nachiket,
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