How to copy a work item and its tasks

Question

I would like to make a copy of a work item and all of its task.

I'm using this version of the product: 11.0.50727.1 I'm using Scrum 2.0 template for the project

If this is possible, how can I do it?

Answer 1

Have you tried Excel? It's your best friend when doing mass editing of work items. You can copy/paste a number of work items. by selecting all columns except the ID column. Copy them and then paste them at the bottom of the open query in Excel.

You need to ensure you're using a Tree based query and that all the columns you want to duplicate are part of the queries columns.

You might lose formatting of HTML typed fields this way though.

I'd be interested to know why you'd want to bulk copy Product Backlog items with all their tasks, from a scrum perspective I don't really see how it would make sense.