We've got TFS email alerts set up when certain files are changed. In the future, many of these files will likely have "copies" via branching. Other than manually creating additional alerts each time a branch is created, can anyone offer some strategies for this scenario? Or simply strategies to make sure we're covered in case a branch is created and we forget to create these alerts.
Thanks for any help!
There is no out of box feature for this, you can submit a feature request on VSTS User Voice.
However, if the name of the files is unique，you can create an email alert just with "File Name = filename.extension" and "Folder Path Contains XXX". This will track the change for the file in the specified folders/branches.
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I have installed Jira Service 3.2.2 and Jira Core 7.2.2.
Whenever I create a new incidence in my project, an email is sent to the user. That email is sent in Spanish and I just want to change a sentence from that email.
I've found some translations in the file
\jira\plugins\installed-plugins\jira-servicedesk-application-3.2.2.jar
in \i18 folder.
I've changed there the wrong sentence and restarted JIRA but the email is still the original, changes seem to not be applied.
Is it the wrong location for email templates translations?
Thanks in advance!
Well, after restarting twice the JIRA server the changes were applied.
That means translations are taken from file:
\jira\plugins\installed-plugins\jira-servicedesk-application-3.2.2.jar
We have an enterprise customer that we have delivered a system for. It is part of the agreement for us to supply them with the source code of the latest release. We are using TFVC on TFS online, and we thought it would be easiest to give them access to our Main branch. But I have difficulties with only allowing them to access the code and nothing else. The user I am testing with, can see too much: I.e. things like dashboard, current team members etc.
Is it possible for me to only expose code from the Main branch and nothing else to an external user?
Giving access to TFS Main Branch out of Organization (AD) is not advisable considering security.. Instead consider giving source code into zip format there are lot of large file sending (FTP sites) are available..
Still for your request of restricting access to user have a look over this
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/restrict-access-tfs
you can consider replicating your part of source code into separate stream and give reader read only access to that stream.
Hope this helps... :)
Refer to these steps to set the permission:
Add user to your VSTS (Basic)
Remove this user from all group if you added
Go to admin page of a team project Version Control (Setting > Version Control)
Select a folder/branch
Click Add > Add User to add that user
Select the user that you added
Set Read permission to Allow
Go to Security page (click Security)
Click Create group to create a new group
Set View project-level information to Allow and deny other permissions for this group
Click Members of that new group
Click Add to add that user to this group
After that, this user can access the code (Just the folder/branch the user has the read permission) on web access (Code > Files).
Last year, I was working with some other people on a computer science project. So, I created a bitbucket repository and invited everybody. As we know each other very well, everybody is an administrator of the repository and I'm the owner.
Today, I would like to clean up my bitbucket repository list. But, I can't find how to leave a repository. When I go in the settings menu, the only thing that I can do is "deleting a repository". It's not what I want to do because I want to leave the repository for the other people.
For some repository (when I'm not the owner), I can revoke myself, but for the other, I can't. Do you know how can I do that? I would like to find a solution without needing to make a ownership transfer as it involves making a transfer request and then, waiting some time to get the answer.
Thank you
Go to 'Your profile and Settings' left bottom corner & Tap 'All work spaces'
Tap 'Leave'
I would like to find a solution without needing to make a ownership transfer as it involves making a transfer request and then, waiting some time to get the answer.
Somebody must own the repository, and you can't leave a repository that you own.
You could create a team and transfer the repository there, then invite the other users to the team. Transferring your repo to a team you create should be instantaneous.
Or you can transfer the repository to an existing user and wait for them to respond, as you have suggested.
Workaround:
Disable "New source browser experience" in here: https://bitbucket.org/account/user//features/
Then click "revoke" in here: https://bitbucket.org///overview
We are running TFS Visual Studio online. Is there a way to configure the email subject line of alert emails to be more user friendly/Readable
No. This is not something you can do with VSOnline. On premise TFS has some templates on the App Server(s) IIRC that you can edit.
I can't see the VSO team adding customisation, but you could always log something on UserVoice and see what happens.
You could consider using the Service Hooks to push notifications to another service that could then create the e-mails. I've not tried this so I don't know how scalable it will be.
We have TFS 2012 installed.
I want to enforce check-in policies (Code Reviewer name, Work Item association and Comments) for each check-in.
All these settings are performed and are working fine. But still users have option to override the settings and check-in.
I want to setup email alerts so that whenever user check-ins without filling all check-in policies, there must a mail sent to user.
I tried Event subscription Tool and TFS mail alert options but both of them work for current user.
We have more than 200 employees and I cant ask each of them to subscribe for mails.
Is it possible to write custom code or some tool available which will be triggered when user check-ins overriding policies and send a mail to user?
You can create a TeamAlert for CheckIn events where Policy Override Comment is not empty and Commiter = [Me]. This will sent a mail to the developer that checked in overriding the policies.
Another option is to write an EventHandler plugin for TFS, which completely denies checkins that try to override the policies.
Finally I found solution. TFS Plugin Suite This plugin is really awesome. Once the plugin is in-place, it will be called before check-in and will validate the required fields and block check-in unless all values are correct.