Does not print conversation history (discussion)

[wesmacdonald]

Hi,

The extension does not inlcude the entire discussion field.

Regards,
Wes

[MrTarantula]

I plan on adding full conversation history soon. The fields of the work item object only contain the latest entry, so it was trivial to include it. Looking at the API, there's getUpdates(), getHistory(), getRevisions(), and a completely undocumented method getComments(). Once I have time to sit down and figure out which is best I will get it included.

[MrTarantula]

I have completely reworked a lot of the extension and once I have released it I will look into printing the complete history.

[stevefuzzy]

I would like to add a request for ability to print complete Discussion as well.

[peckhamm]

Since you haven't had a chance to wrap this up yet, I'm hoping that you can find a way to include in that history, who and when the parts in the conversation took place. Thank you in advance.

[MrTarantula]

I have history basically working in a test build. I'm playing with the formatting, but right now there is a top header for History, and all of the individual items are indented slightly. Each comment has a header with time, date, and username, then the text begins on the next line. I'm pretty happy that it keeps most of the formatting. Suggestions on formatting/placement?

[peckhamm]

The only change I would make to what's above is an extra space above the date line of a new entry. Other than that, it's exactly what I am looking for.

[MrTarantula]

Yes, I noticed that after I posted the image. I'll add a bit of padding. The only thing left for me to do is make it work reliably in TFS 2015 and 2017/VSTS, and I'll update the extension.

[stevefuzzy]

Hi. Any idea when you will update the extension to support printing of conversation history?

[MrTarantula]

I was nearly done with it, and then I tried to add a couple of other features. This snowballed into rewriting a lot of it. Then I put the whole thing on hold.

I will get conversation history merged in very soon, then do all the other stuff later.

[MrTarantula]

Conversation history is live with version 2.2.1. Please test it and let me know if there are any issues I have not addressed.

[MrTarantula]

I'm assuming all is well. Please open another issue if there are problems.

[peckhamm]

Got it installed and have tested it this week and it looks awesome!

THANK YOU!

[MrTarantula]

If you have a moment, please rate it on the Marketplace.

[peckhamm]

I'll make time!