Question

Is there any way to easily create a workspace, based on a pre-existing “template” one? …or some other way of creating workspace on behalf of others?

Answer 1

you can create a workspace using a command script using the tf workspace command. Then you can map work folders using the tf workfold command. The workspace command has a /template option

For example:

to create a workspace for someone

tf workspace /new Beta1;jenh

then create a new one based on the template

tf workspace /new /template:Beta1;jenh /server:teamserver2 Beta1;user2

to map a folder:

tf workfold /map $/projects/project_one C:\localproject1 /workspace:Beta1;user2