I'm currently working on Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
There are around 300 backlog items.
I need to append the word "User Story:" to the title field of all the backlog items. How to do this?
thanks.
You can update multiple items in bulk by opening up the query in Microsoft Excel, update the title in excel and then use the Publish option in the Team menu item
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I just install a new copy of Azure DevOps Server (TFS) to my own computer.
the only work items I can use right now are: "Epic", "Issue" & "Task".
Now my Question is:
How can I add the work items "User Story", "feature"& "Bug"?
Thanks any help will be appreciated.
Because when you created the team project you chose Basic process template, you need to choose Agile/Scrum/CMMI.
Try to create a new project with Agile/Scrum/CMMI process template.
See here more info.
Agree with Shayki Abramczyk.
How can I add the work items "User Story", "feature"& "Bug"?
We could create work item via Agile process, then we could add work items User Story, Feature and Bug.
If you still want to use Basic Process template and your TFS version is Azure DevOps Server 2019 or later versions. You could create collection via Inheritance process model, then open Collection Settings->Process->select Inheritance process->click the button New work item type to add new work item type.
If you are using On-premises XML process model, you could refer to this doc to add work item type.
I have access to TFS 2013 Issue Tracker Web UI, only option i see to export my query results is to send them as an email. Is there any other way to export them to more "computer" friendly format? I would like to use those results as input in my application.
Edit: Some more information. My TFS version is 12.0.40629.0. I don't have Visual Studio and my Excel does'n have tab "Team" on the ribbon. Let's assume that i don't have any rights to install additional applications, all i have is Web UI.
You can use the REST APIs for queries to get the results of a query if you want to consume the data by a tool. These APIs should be available on TFS 2015.
There is also a suggestion on user voice requesting to add Excel export to the Web
You can only export query result by sending it as an email from Web access. But you can export the query result to Excel from Team Explorer:
Another way is saving the query from Web Access, then create report from Excel directly by clicking Team tab and go to New List to connect the team project and select the saved query result:
I have a number of TFS work items where I need to blank out a particular field (the Assigned To picklist). I would like to do this using a template, but if I leave the field empty in the template, it interprets that as meaning I don't want to change that field. Is there any way I can define a template where I tell it that I want to empty this field, when I apply the template to my work items? Maybe some special placeholder like , something like that?
Note: I'm working on TFS work items through Visual Studio 2010; and for some reason the web interface isn't accessible in this project.
Update; for anybody not familiar with work item templates, they are a way to define a batch of changes to make to a work item, which can be applied to one or more items in a single action. This functionality is part of Team Foundation Server Power Tools. Here's an example of a template I use frequently:
Once you have a suitable template defined, you can select a number of work items from a view in TFS, right-click, and apply the template to all of them with just three mouse-clicks in total:
Not sure what you mean by template. But if you have a bunch of work items and you want to do a bulk-update to set Assigned To to blank, I would do that in Excel.
Run a Work Item Query in Visual Studio, click the Open in Office/Excel button, copy-paste blank into the Assigned To field across all the rows, then hit Publish in the Team ribbon tab to publish those changes back to TFS.
I am attempting to add a "Requested By" field to a custom Work Item Template in TFS 2010. When I create the field in the work item, I wish to have the values restricted to a particular AD group. I'm looking for functionality similar to the "Assigned To" field in the standard templates. However, if I add this AD group to one of the TFS groups, they all get added as valid users in TFS and that is not the behavior I'm looking for. I simply wish to restrict the values for a field to an specific AD group. I've tried adding the AD group to the "Group" property of the VALIDUSER field definition rule, but I get the following error:
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Error
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Error importing work item type definition:
TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator to add your account.
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OK
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Thanks in advance!
[Update]
On further investigation, I have found that it works with certain AD groups, but not with others. For instance, it works with our "Developers Group" but not with "Domain Users". It's actually a fairly small subset of groups that I've tested that work. Again, Any help would be appreciated!
The simplest way I've found is to use the ALLOWEDVALUES field definition rule. Add to the list of allowed values the name of a TFS Group. I have still not been able to get the AD group to work directly. But my big problem was that when I was trying to use a project group, I was putting the project name in the "[Project]\Group Name".
As stated here
some people may think that “[project]” is a place holder for the
project's name, but it is meant as a literal.
You should be able to add an AD group, by simply writing it as domain\group.
Note, however, that the group needs to have some access privileges to the team project (e.g. A member of Contributers).
Have you tried to create a TFS Group, add the AD group in the TFS Group, then add the TFS Group in the "Group" property of the VALIDUSER field definition ?
If I remember correctly you can't put AD group in the "Group" property of a TFS Field, but only TFS Groups...
How can i set default queries for all users in Team Foundation Server when i am using Team web access?
How to: Save a Team Query (Team System Web Access)
If you have the required permissions, you can save a query to share with other users to a folder location that other users can access. They have them available by default. Queries saved in a location where the team can use them are called Team Queries.
To save a query as a team query, you must be a member of the Project Administrators group.
Create or modify a work item query.
Click Save As.
In the Save as Query dialog box, in the Name box, type a name for the query.
Click the Team query option.
In the Team project list, select the team project.
In the Description field, type a description.
Click OK when you are finished.