I'm doing some research on CMS alternatives for a client.
One requisite is to allow content editors to schedule the publishing of multiple pages at a given date. Is it possible in Umbraco?
I can see that content editors can schedule each of the pages to be published at the same time. But what if they want to change the date for the whole set being published? Can they do it without manually changing the "Publish At" value of a ALL the pages in the set?
If this is not supported out of the box, do you know if Courier supports it? (Or any other add-on?)
Thanks!
Out of the box, you have to set the dates for each bit of content that you want to publish on schedule. There is no support for publishing "sets" of content.
Courier wouldn't be able to do this for you either, as that's fired manually.
Umbraco DOES have a lot of pretty easy to use extension points, so it's possible that you could write your own code to do this without too much trouble.
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I am new to TFS and know the basic concepts. In my case we have customized TFS a lot which contains around 17 collections, custom fields in work items etc.
I have some queries for which I require some answers. The questions might be generic, but any help or suggestions on the below queries would be great.
Following are my queries:
1.) Show Work Item ID in a specific format. Can it be done
2.) Auto Fill custom fields for a work item based on a category / linked bugs (analogous to Relative Path column type)
3.) While raising a WI through Visual Studio development tool, the datepicker only takes date value and not time. The same work items when raised through web portal the datepicker gives time value as well.
4.) Auto Fill the efforts spent in Child Work items (summation of all child link items in the parent)
5.) Reminders to be sent if iteration / scrum set date crossed. Also check for Work Items as well, if set date is crossed.
6.) Create Queries which can query across all collections / verticals. Currently queries can be made only against each entire collection, but not across all collections. Do we have any mechanism to query against multiple collections?
7.) Email alerts customizations in TFS.
8.) Can the collections be merged into 1 default collection.
I have tried to find few answers from my end as well, and would like to know, if it is correct.
1.) Work Item ID cannot be shown in a specific format as it is system generated
2.) For Auto Filling of Work Item fields, it cannot be done. Manual approach is the only way (unless there is a way to pre-populate fields
3.) One can only query for all projects in a single collection. But it is not possible to query against multiple collections and get the results.
So require assistance on the above queries and also validate the answers I have got for few of my questions.
Any help or suggestions or relevant links would be great.
Thanks In Advance!!!..
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You are right. This is by designed. You can not change to use other
format of work item.
Yes. This could not be done at present. It's still a user voice, but
on the Roadmap. Support for calculated fields and roll-ups.
Sorry, not get your point.You could use the DateTimeControl type to give users a calendar picker to select a date for a DateTime field. By using this control, you can quickly select a date and time for the field. For details.
You could do this from a sprint backlog or task board. Details
please take a look at our official tutorial here: Rollup of work
and other fields
We do not have this kind of build-in time reminder for work items.
However, as a workaround, There is a dashboard widget that uses #me
in its query.
You can also cobble something together using the REST API and a
scheduled build. Calling a work item query and sending email is
pretty easy from PowerShell.
No, they are using different database. You are only able to query
across team projects int the same project collection.
It's able to do this but with a little bit complicated. For detail
info, please take a look at this link: Customize TFS 2015 alert
email
There is no default way to do this. I do not think there is a
possibility of merging two TFS collections other than creating a new
collection, creating the team projects and use a tool such as TFS
integration tools to move the team projects from the source
collections.
As you can see, history will be rewritten with new dates, changeset
and work items ids etc, if you are trying to merge collections.
I am trying to implement a 'time machine' feature in my grails application. The feature would allow user to select a date in past and would display the interface of the application that was on the selected date. How do I implement this feature? I was thinking of adding a 'dateCreated' field for all domains, so that in the time machine feature, I could query all the results with created date before the selected date. I think this would work but as the data would grow, the size of database would grow and at that time the application would be heavy. Is there any other way to do this ?
Thanks
You could maybe draw some inspiration from this related question:
How to manage object revisions in Grails?
You should look at the http://grails.org/plugin/audit-logging plugin since it will allow you to keep all versions of domain class instances. But implementing this feature will be pretty tricky since object don't exist in isolation - you'll need to not only display the data as of the previous date, but its related data (e.g. the author's books collection) as of that date too. It will make the queries quite complicated.
What is the best way to store a task for multiple users in TFS 2010 ? I can only assign one for one task.
(for example: when I plan a demo to all developers)
(this is a scrum Msf Agile project, where the task is part of a user story)
I'm sorry to tell you that you can't assign multiple users to a single work item out of the box; At the same time, I do not recommended trying as this, as it does not fit the model in TFS. The conventional / recommended way to handle this type of scenario is to create multiple tasks; one for each developer in this case. You can easily accomplish this by copying a set of tasks using MS Excel. Another option (given the example you used) is to create a "Meeting" work item that has multiple drop-downs - one for each person that would attend meetings like for a demo or a technical review.
Yet another option is to create a custom control to format and store a list of users. This would likely be relatively complex to maintain, as you have to distribute it to each user's machine (it will need to be installed locally), and last I checked you would need 2 versions; one for the Team Explorer user interface and another for the Web Access tool that most people use to create work items from a web page on their TFS server. Future updates to TFS could possibly break your custom control. It is rarely worth the effort. Another downside is the you would likely be limited by how you can use MS Excel to work with the data you store in the field that the custom control works with. If you want to look into this further you can find some examples in the following CodePlex project: http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com/
You might consider your true goals in tracking such things as meetings and other items you want to assign multiple people to. Tasks are the heart of tracking progress of user stories in the MSF Agile Template. Tracking meeting attendance does not typically relate directly to a User Story, for example; so it won't typically assist you to determine how much close you are to being "done" with a User Story. If you want to take advantage of the existing reports, then you should organize your tasks so that they roll up as child work items to User Story (or Bug) work items.
Short story: you can't. Work items in the Process Template of Microsoft are designed to target nobody or only one User.
Now you can customize the Process Template to change this.
Take this post for instance, the customization works for group. But I don't recommend you to do so because TFS is basically not designed for that and you may end up disappointed.
I wonder if it's possible to specify ticket "types" in Jira and have specific data that MUST be filed in for a given ticket type. Say we have a "campaign start" ticket type. In that the creator must set a few dates, attach a file with some data etc. And also have a default cost in time for a given ticket type so that an estimated date when it could be started and done could be shown. Is this possible?
Edit: By And also have a default cost in time for a given ticket type so that an estimated date when it could be started and done could be shown. I mean if it would be possible to set that a 'campaign start' type of standard ticket would require 3 days of work to get done. So that if we let a specific few people create tickets they could see like a time-line of when their ticket could be started on and when it could be assumed to be completed.
Yes - there is quite a bit possible with JIRA, including enforcing fields at certain stages and so on / so forth. This is all well documented on the Atlassian site, or you can work with one of their partners (like us :-) ...) for setting up your project configuration.
Enforcing certain fields can be done through the field configuration scheme or through the use of specific plugins.
Could you elaborate on
And also have a default cost in time
for a given ticket type so that an
estimated date when it could be
started and done could be shown. Is
this possible?"
Francis
The specific documentation is on Field Configuration Schemes. The default cost in time sounds like setting a default value for the system Original Estimate field, which it would be nice if you could also do via the Field Configuration Scheme, but you currently can't. I'd look at some injected javascript to set a default, perhaps using the Behaviours plugin.
I am looking for a fancy way the print individual work items in TFS.
OK ... maybe not the work item directly but I need to produce printable forms based on data on a work item. And by fancy I mean: header, footer, formatting, tables maybe ... stuff like that.
No, I am not trying to print a list of work items, read carefully, I need an output based on a single work item.
For those who are wondering "Why on earth do you need that?" I should say:
We are keeping everything on TFS around here. (For now only software development stuff, but I am thinking bigger...) Sometimes somethings need to be on hard copy, to be signed for instance, and that is why I need printable forms.
I came up with a solution a little interesting from my point of view.
I used the "mail merge" function of MS Word to print work items. I prepared an SQL query that reads whatever fields are needed from TFS database and set the query as a datasource for mail marge.
Now I can design a word document of any kind and use TFS fields in the document. I just select the appropriate record by work item number and voila!! my printable work item is ready.
It is a little slow when selecting a work item if you use a query that returns all work items, but who is perfect? Right ?
Though I agree that Reporting Services is probably the best way to accomplish this, you could alternatively write a web application that queries TFS and formats the data into a nice, printable HTML page. If you really wanted to, you could even look at some of the PDF libraries that are out there and just form-fill a PDF.
Here is an other free tool which can print tfs workitems:
http://blog.bbv.ch/2013/10/31/tfs-print/
You can use the Reporting services to create nice reports.
Access to the reporting services.
http://[tfsservername]/reports
Use the report designer with the standard cube's.
Here a link to get you started
ALM Rangers recently posted a tool on CodePlex which is actually an add-in for MS Word. What it does is connect to a query on TFS and create a word documents based on a print template.
http://vsarword4tfs.codeplex.com/