I setup TFS 2013 scrum template late last year and was using it without issue. When adding a new PBI or BUG on the Web Portal and tabbing into the Assigned To field I was able to start typing or drop down the list to see all the members of the Team Project.
After upgrading to TFS 2015 the list is gone and type ahead does not work. If I type the first few characters of a member and click search I am able to find a member, but this is cumbersome when going through and trying to quickly add a PBI or BUG. FYI this also happens when adding a new Bug as well as tasks on both a PBI and Bug.
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I need to set a default value for the Retrospective tab in TFS 2015.
Factory value is the following (TEXT 1):
What worked?
What didn't work?
What will we do differently?
Using the Powertools, I add a DEFAULT rule. In the rule i specify the following default value for the Retrospective (TEXT 2):
What worked?
Please check out what you wanted to do differently in the last two sprints.
What didn't work?
What will we do differently?
So really it's just adding Please check out what you wanted to do differently in the last two sprints.
Now here comes the problem. I save my work, and if I create a sprint in Visual Studio, TEXT 2 is displayed.
If I create a Sprint in Online TFS (accessed from browser), it will show TEXT 1.
Did anyone have a similar problem in the past?
Thank You in advance!
The Sprint work item, used in TFS 2010 with the MS Scrum 1.0 process template, was removed from the Scrum process template 2.0 of TFS 2012.
However since TFS 2012, you configure the sprint schedule as part of the new Agile Planning feature, making the Sprint work item redundant.
So your options for storing the goals\retrospective:
Use a Task work item (Title, Description fields)
Add custom field in the Product Backlog Item
Use SharePoint integration - store as a document
I am creating a query from the backlog in 2 different TFS projects using the link on the backlog page:
It is generating differently for each project.
The 1st project was created in TFS2103 and upgraded to 2015:
The 2nd project was created new in TFS 2015 after the upgrade.
Note the difference in the query for the Area path. The one for the project created before the upgrade uses the 'Under' operator. The one create after the upgrade uses the '=' operator.
Can anyone explain what is causing the difference?
This is governed by the Area configuration for your team. You can find it in the Configuration panel:
Is it possible to delete the link between a code review and a changeset in TFS 2013? We are on TFS 2013 Update 3 and are using Visual Studio 2013 Update 4.
A colleague checked in a code change but mistakenly typed in the wrong work item ID, thus associating his changeset with the wrong work item number. We were able to link the correct work item (a bug in this case) to the changeset, but we can't seem to figure out how to remove the link from the code review, which is totally unrelated. Unlike bugs, user stories, and other work item types, code reviews appear in the Team Explorer window, and the only options available are Open Work Item, New Linked Work Item, Create a Copy of Work Item, and Link to An Existing Item. What am I missing?
If you open the code review request from the TFS web portal then you'll be able to remove the changeset link to it.
I am currently using the TFS express 2013 with update 4.
I logged in into the web portal of my TFS project where I would like to add some featues and backlog project items.
I have some trouble with displaying the backlog items under features. I have created a new feature Resignation, created a new backlog poject item Add resignation button to employee and created a link between the 2.
But in my overview I see still the following:
I would like to see it like here:
What am I doing wrong?
Your first screenshot is in the Queries tab, looking at the Results of the Assigned To Me Query. The 2nd screenshot is in the Backlogs tab.
PS - TFS Express may not contain the Portfolio Management features that you're trying to get to. I've never used TFS Express so not entirely sure which features are in there or not.
Last week I upgraded our TFS 2012 Server to TFS 2013. I read the MSDN documentation first and I also followed the documentation as I performed the upgrade. Everything seemed to go ok.
After the upgrade I ended up with 7 or so Team Projects that the wizard couldn't configure, for whatever reason, and needed manual configuration.
I noticed this week that ALL of the work items under one of my Team Projects are missing. Gone. Like even if I select Team|Go To Work Item and enter in a known Work Item Id, I receive an error that the item is either missing or I do not have permission to view it. I'm an Administrator on the TFS server and I'm the TFS Admin, so I highly doubt permissions are the issue.
I remoted into the server and launched SSMS to explore the raw data. I know for a fact Work Item 450 is missing (it's the only Id I remember at this point). I selected the TOP 1000 from WorkItemsAre, which seems to be the table that holds the Work Items (?). There is a gap in the Ids, I see 1-448, then the numbering picks up again at 457. So, somehow my Work Items appear to have been deleted. I stopped there, I assume there are more gaps since I'm missing more than 9 items.
Now I haven't gone through every one of our Team Projects. I've only touched 3 of them since the upgrade. Thankfully the largest, most active Team Project, with the most work items/version history seems to be intact. I'm not sure if any other Team Projects are missing their Work Items too.
Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know if there's some "secret squirrel" way to recover these missing work items, or have they been hard deleted and are gone for good (other than looking through tape backups of the server).
Any advice would be appreciated.
I already migrated to TFS 2013 from TFS 2012.
The problem of manual configuring the project may occur when you have customized work item types in TFS Project Templates. Did you customize your project templates?
Although, I can hardly believe that work-items getting hard deleted from TFS. This issue may occur probably because of archiving during migration. The workitems that TFS upgrade wizard may not have "understood" during migration/upgrade, might be archived and moved to another table in database Tfs_DefaultCollection.
You may want to consider that. I am not sure if that may be the case, but this happened when we migrated from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 because we had many custom work items in TFS 2010. Hence we had to standardize templates before migration using powershell. But we lost some amount of history.
Hope that sparks some idea.