Is it possible in TFS 2015 on-premise to modify a collections process templates? According to the article here, there should be a "process" tab on the web interface, collection administration page. This document is for 2015 but is a little old. Should this feature be available for 2015 on-premise upgrade 2? Am I missing a permission?
https://www.visualstudio.com/docs/work/customize/customize-work#team-projects-and-processes-team-services-
Just as the article mentioned, the settings are with VS Team Service. Team projects and processes (Team Services) And there is no “process” tab on the web interface for TFS2015.
Scroll down the page and you will see Team projects and process templates (TFS)
When you work with an on-premises TFS, you customize your work
tracking experience through one or more XML definition files. You can
start by customizing a process template and its XML definition files,
and then create a team project based on the template. Or, you can
simply make modifications as needed to add customizations to the work
item fields, work item types, and other objects that support tracking
work.
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Is it possible to change the settingd for TFS 2017 to only have Team foundation Server version control available (disable git) and only have CMMI available for the work item process? I am using the web interface.
You can delete the process templates from within Visual Studio.
You can't disable Git support, but you can easily create a new TFVC repository in an existing team project if someone chooses incorrectly.
Unfortunately, it's not able to customize the Create team project process. You could not directly disable the options both for Process template and Version Control.
You could create a uservoice, TFS PM will kindly review your suggestion.
I have been tasked with creating a custom planning view from TFS.
I have a reasonable amount of experience with the TFS Api but I want to try and avoid having to create and maintain a new application for this.
I have looked at SSRS for TFS but I am unable to access all of the data I need (tags etc.) so this is not an option (as it will invalidate support).
I would ideally like to create a "widget" to appear on one of the TFS dashboards but am not sure where to start. The widget would also need to allow access to the TFS api to gather the data it needs to generate.
Please can someone advise where I may look to start or an alternative approach.
You may want to take a look at http://integrate.visualstudio.com where you can find documentation for the TFS API. The REST API works for TFS 2015 and above.
While you can extend the web interface with Extensions (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/) in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), this feature is not yet available in TFS on-premises as of TFS 2015 Update 1.
You can check the published feature timeline for updates, but at this time extensions for TFS are marked as "TBD".
If you're working with TFS2013 + Update2 or a higher version of TFS, it is allowed for Team Administrators to customize TFS dashboard via pinning items to the homepage without writing any code.
For example, if you would like to add a chart into the dashboard, you just need to go to the query’s Charts page and pin it to the home page. See the following image (quoted from this MSDN article)
We are planning to upgrade from Tfs 2012 to Tfs 2013. Can anyone help me understand the difference in process templates between them? We use all three process templates for different projects.
The changes are very minor, except for:
The introduction of Portfolio backlogs.
Test Plans and test Suites are now Work Item Types (TFS 2013 update 3).
The AgileConfig and CommonProcessConfig files have been merged to a single file inside the template
The minor changes:
Git support for the Source Control options
Stackrank type fields are now hidden by default (because Agile task boards are now features of the Standard CAL).
Tag field support through the API.
The easiest way to visualize all differences is by comparing them through the TFS Team Project Manager which can be downloaded here.
TFS 2013 did not work well with our existing workspaces defined on remote network drives. TFS 2012 did work with this configuration.
After working several hours with our System Administrators, we gave up on trying to get the trying to get the existing network drive workspaces to work with the TFS 2013. Converting the workspaces to local drive locations enabled us to work with TFS 2013.
According to this blog post by Brian Harry, the agile portfolio management aspect of TFS2013 and Visual Studio Team Services has a feature to create different levels of backlog items.
For instance, a backlog of business initiatives can be broken down into a backlog of scenarios and then into a backlog of user stories, etc. You can manage the backlog at each level and trace the relationships.
and
All of this will be included in TFS 2013 and is available on Team Foundation Service today for you to start to explore.
I can't see anywhere to do it on Visual Studio Team Services. According to this page on MSDN you can do it via witadmin by exporting an existing work item type, modifying it, and reimporting it.
However trying to do this with Visual Studio Team Services results in the following error:
TF237113: You don't have enough permissions to complete the import operation.
Which seems to be a common complaint, e.g. there are lots of comments about it at UserVoice.
Is it possible then in Visual Studio Team Services to add a different level of backlog item?
Visual Studio Team Services doesn't allow you to customize the process template and/or Work Item definitions. That's why witadmin isn't working.
However, the Portfolio Management features are available in Team Services. If you are using the Scrum Process Template you will have Features that are broken down into a backlog of PBIs, and the PBIs are broken down into Tasks. You do not have the ability in Team Services to add additional layers like you do in TFS on-premise.
I've installed TFS 2012 Express on Windows server 2008.
Created new project, and choose the Scrum 2.0 process template.
From all the tutorials, I understand that I am supposed to have backlog, board and work items tabs.
However, I have only the work items. How do I get the two others?
Here: View Backlog link is missing from the TFS11 home page
someone pointed that there is Web Access Permissions setting in the Administration page,
but in the Administration page, I am also missing the web acess tab.
Agile Planning tool are not available in TFS Express. Under the "Agile/Scrum" section of the post it says:
Product Backlog and Sprint Planning – these require Premium or Ultimate (see this post about enabling via the licensing feature)
At the end of the article it also mentions:
[UPDATE 6/7/2012] TFS Express does not include any of the Agile features. It is really focused on source control, build, and bug tracking. You can read more about it here.