<p>In TFS whats the easiest way of linking a backlog item to a large number of other backlog items, without doing them one at a time?</p>

<p>I do not have access to the underlying database so am unable to write a query to do it.</p>

[{'answer_id': 39700, 'author': 'pr0nin', 'author_id': 2241, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2241', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Depends on your definition of easy, but you could write a SQL Update linking the backlog item(s) to the correct backlog items.</p>\n\n<p>(If there is no field in the backlog item to connect it to another backlog item, you would have to extend backlog item and the views showing them yourself)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 39814, 'author': 'Cory Foy', 'author_id': 4083, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4083', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I\'d stay away from the SQL Query. Instead, I\'d either use the API or Web Services. Here\'s an example API call to retrieve and edit a work item:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130323.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130323.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130323.aspx</a></a></p>\n\n<p>You could modify that to add the links. Would be much safer, easier, and much more supported than going directly to the database.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1941507, 'author': 'Vaccano', 'author_id': 16241, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/16241', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I put together a GUI tool that helps do this.</p>\n\n<p>It is called WI Assistant.  </p>\n\n<p>It can be found here: <a href="http://wiassistant.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://wiassistant.codeplex.com/</a></p>\n'}]
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