Unable to Update Bugs with Added Files

[markdiaper]

Fortress allows you to update a Bug upon check in of an already existing file, but the same option doesn't seem to exist when adding a new file.

Is there any of way updating a Bug with the new files added?

[lbauer]

We have feature request 14134 logged for this functionality; I'll add your vote.

In the meantime here's a possible workaround. Before you add any files/folders, turn off Auto-Commit in the Vault Client. This setting is under Tools->Options->Concurrent Development Style.

Now the "Adds" will be in the pending change set and you can commit them just as you commit the modified files, and update bugs on checkin.

[AjarnMark]

Please add my vote as well.

And if it is not this far reaching, I would also request that any changes to the source code repository be link-able to Items (renaming files/folders, and creation of folders come to mind as other actions not currently logged against Items).

Another "work-around" I use since I do not always have changed files to commit along with new files, is to manually enter the "item:____" syntax in my comment so that I at leas have a reference from source code to Item even though that does not cause a check-in comment on the item itself. Note that I always work with auto-commit turned off so I can catch things like this.

[lbauer]

Thanks for your comments. I'll add them to the feature request

[markdiaper]

Thanks for all your help. Hopefully the feature request will make its way into a release soon. In the mean time I will use the workaround.

Sorry I didn't reply earlier. This was my first post and I hadn't checked the "notify me when a reply is posted", so hadn't got any replies.

[lbauer]

No problem. We do have it logged and will consider the feature for a future release.