At my daily work, I have to follow multiple Team foundation tasks or user stories. Sometimes, I create a task to other teams and they change status of this task to verified level unexpectedly. But after I control this task and realized that its not working correctly.
NOTE: I tried to use custom alerts but could not find anything about related work items.
NOTE2 : TFS 2015.
Is there any way to be notify when someone changes your task's status to verified before telling me?
Yes, you can create a work item alert (if email is enabled on the server) and specify a query where you can set "Created by" == #me as query to get email.
Go to notifications or alerts (depending on your TFS version) and create a new work item based alert. Then create a work item query that lists the work items you want to be notified about.
In TFS 2017 and VSTS you can also "follow" a work item:
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I'm using TFS for task tracking in a team of ~40 people. We create Backlog Items with child Tasks. I'd like to implement some kind of automatic notifications or alerts when Tasks under a Backlog Item is closed.
For example, we have a Backlog Item like "Build a Cart", with a few child tasks:
Server - Build a Cart (Assigned to Dev1)
Client - Build a Cart (Assigned to Dev2)
Content - Add content to the Cart (Assigned to Des1)
QA - Test the Cart (Assigned to QA1)
When the first task "Server - Build a Cart" is closed, I'd like to make sure all other members (Dev2, Des1, and QA1) are alerted somehow. Some people are in different geographic locations, so automating the notification is what I'm looking for.
Is there some kind of plugin or way I can configure things to automate more alerts or notifications?
I'm afraid that it cannot be achieved by the default TFS notification system since you need to filter the parent work items. And there isn't any plugin for this as far as I know. I would recommend you to create a service hook event for work item changed event and then create a web service to listen the event and send out email notifications base on your request.
I want to follow several work items and to be able to do this in bulk rather than having to go into each item and click 'follow'. I have created a query but can't see a way of getting updates on the status of each item within the query. Is this possible?
Unfortunately, there isn't the feature for now, there are two user voices to suggest the feature , you can go and vote them up to achieve it in future:
User Voice:
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-studio-team-services/suggestions/16650295-i-can-t-seem-to-bulk-follow-items
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-studio-team-services/suggestions/13885038-assign-followers-to-a-work-item
As a workaround, you can create a notification alert for the work items change. See Set alerts, get notified when changes occur for details.
I'm on update 4. I want to let business users submit "tickets" in TFS for research. However, they less rights to the project and aren't part of the contributors role. In addition, TFS documention indicates that once you deploy a "team alert" that the "#ME" variable changes to actually referring to the team, and not the person.
What is the approach to take to ensure that someone with less permissions, and not part of contributor group, will always get notified when a work item they created gets changed.
NOTE: TFS 2013 UPDATE 4 -- ON PREMISE
Related item: TFS 2013 (Update 2) Team Alerts not sending emails
* this doesn't help as I can't add them as contributors, need narrowing security permission.
UPDATE 2016-02-22
In looking through the alerts section, as an admin I see I can actually search and find an individual and setup an alert for them on the workitem change. However, this is a manual process, and I would like to do this in bulk. I will work on tracing the query execution that is called when the alert is created and see if I could replicate with a sql command to insert alerts for all users. However, I'd like to avoid running a direct sql query to do this if possible, if there is some bulk processing functionality that allows an individual alert to be deployed to each person on a team without doing it manually.
Anyone aware of any extensions, scripts, or other functionality that does this?
According to the comments of this issue TFS 2013 Update 2 Team Alerts not sending emails.This issue is not fixed with TFS 2013 UPDATE4. So, if you can't add the users as contributors, then they can't receive an email.
As a workaround, you can use events of team room. Adding events lets your team know when builds finish, source code is checked in, work items are updated, and requests for code reviews occur. This can be visible to all members of the team room. Detailed steps and more info from MSDN Collaborate in a team room
I'm looking to reproduce the Jira watch functionality in TFS 2013. In Jira, you can click a link to watch an item and thereafter you will be notified when anything on that item changes.
I know on TFS you can:
be emailed if anyone changes a bug you are assigned to
manually email a bug to anyone at any time
Create a custom report and pin it to your home page to notify yourself of things (like this maybe?)
I can imagine creating a new field that will accept multiple users and creating a custom email notification to notify everyone in that list if the work item changes. But that seem like a whole lot of work and I'm not sure were to start if that is the way do do this.
What's the easiest way to get functionality like watching a work item? If it's easy and similar to the Jira functionality that is better for me than exactly the same and hard to do.
Sure, you can setup email alerts based on many different criteria, including what you asked for.
You need to go to the Alerts section, and create a new custom alert, and you can put in the ID of whatever work item you want to "watch". By default it includes the clause AuthorizedAs <> [Me] which will make sure it doesn't email you for changes that you make, but you can remove that clause if you'd like.
I'm wondering if there's a way to write a tfs query such that when the results change, I will receive an email notifying me.
side question - is there a way to subscribe to updates to specific pieces of code?
Thanks!
I have the TFS Power Tools installed. The Alerts Explorer appears to have pre-configured alerts for several check-in activities. One of them is Check-In of a specific file happens.
And, I'm not sure which results you're talking about, but... You can also create various alerts for Builds and Work Item actions. I've got mine set up to alert me when something is assigned to me or when something assigned to me changes.