Like the title says, how can I customize the web dashboard in TFS 2012? I have created my own Work Item Type and would like a shortcut on the home page of Team Web Access. I am using the default Team Web Access page and I would just like to have a shortcut button immediately on the front page instead of in a dropdown, which is where it's contained now.
Thanks!
There is no supported way to do this. In TFS 2015 they have the concept of Web Extensions, but that is only for specific extension points which doesn't include changing the home page.
You can do it in an unsupported manner, but I wouldn't recommend it. You can find the ASPX/CSS/JS files on the server that TFS uses for the web site and hack away at them. I've known people that have done this before. But there are probably repercussions when it comes time to upgrade.
For posterity, I've found a dirty solution to do this without cloning the website and gutting it (as described here: http://awaitwisdom.com/how-to-extend-tfs-team-web-access/). Note that this solution is really dirty and may not fit your project needs.
The solution works by swapping the default work item options (based on the process template you are using).
Use WITADMIN to export your Categories into an XML. Find a work item currently on the front page that you're okay with swapping out for the work item you want to be on the front page. Change "DEFAULTWORKITEMTYPE" to "WORKITEMTYPE" in the tags. Add a new entry: and it should show up as one of the shortcut buttons on your home page.
I highly recommend doing your modifications with Microsoft TFS Power Tools 2012.
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I need to embed charts from TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation Server) in a simple HTML page. The chart editor allows me to copy the query URL, but i don't see any elegant way to embed the chart itself. Any advise on how to get individual charts from a TFS instance on my own web page?
At present, you don't. There's no supported way to do that.
Allow you to copy the query URL cause it's Query-based charts which generate data from the work item tracking data store and therefore displays the most recent data. You could add it to dashboard, but it's not able to embed them in a normal HTML page outside of TFS.
There has been a related uservoice, which you could use the Chart for work items widget:
Embed Dashboard Widgets outside of VSTS / TFS
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-studio-team-services/suggestions/13784832-embed-dashboard-widgets-outside-of-vsts-tfs
You could vote up for it and TFS admin/PM will kindly review your suggestion.
As a security measure, I am trying to remove the admin UI from an Umbraco 7 site without affecting the front end of the site. I have tried deleting both Umbraco and Umbraco_Client folders (I seem to remember this was how you removed a pre Umbraco 7 site) but the front end of the site errors due to various files that are now missing.
In an ideal scenario I would like to update the content from a staging server and import the database back into the live site, but also I would like to avoid solving this with folder permissions.
Can anyone offer me some advice on the best way to remove the admin UI safely?
Are you trying to have a separation of environment between content entry and delivery? Not sure if you've seen it but this discussion on the Umbraco forum has some suggestions (but no ideal solutions in my opinion) for that
http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/extending-umbraco/33337-Creating-a-content-editing-and-content-delivery-environment
You could always just do some URL restriction on the server but there's no ideal way as far as I can see
Carl
I'm trying to make use of the razor engine in a SharePoint 2013 Web Part. This, I read, shouldn't be too difficult since SharePoint 2013 Visual Web Parts can be built using .NET Framework 4.0
I'm simply not sure of where to begin to do this. I've seen an article on uploading the .cshtml file onto a document library and referencing the document library in the Web Part, but it is a bit unclear.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can start? Or point me to a step-by-step guide to achieve what I am after.
What my end goal is: Take a piece of an MVC application, customize it and make it a Web Part. I need to be able to modify or access SharePoint content on that site which is why I cannot use an App Part.
Okay.
First install the Office Development Templates from
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/office-dev-tools-for-visual-studio
This will give you the following template selection on reopening Studio
Then navigate to wherever EwsManagedApi32.msi is and enter the following command in an elevated prompt -
EwsManagedApi32.msi addlocal="ExchangeWebServicesApi_Feature,ExchangeWebServicesApi_Gac"
Now your templates are usable and the one you want is "VS2012 Web Part".
Now, by default this will add an ASP.NET project, which is not what you want, so manually delete the ASP.NET project, add an MVC one, highlight the SharePoint project in Solution Explorer, hit F4, and select the MVC project in the "Web Project" dropdown at the bottom of the properties.
And there you go. One controller per web part, sorted.
I am sharing link SharePoint MVC webpart that uses Knock out framework using MVC for SharePoint. It has step by step instructions which might help you.
Hope this will be a good starting point
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/739445/SharePoint-Razor-View-WebPart
Sharepoint 2007:
Core.css file is located in the 12 Folder:
12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES
but my question is : is this file shared for all webapplications on sharepoint server?
I think it is not because when I make changes in the core.css, only one of the applications showed the changes, so where is the others core.css files located?
I made search in my c driver I find only one core.css!!!!
Thanks in advance
This file is shared by all Web Applications. What you experience is most likely a result of aggressive client side web browser caching. Try clearing your browsers cache and refresh the page.
Having said that...
This is not the way you are supposed to customize SharePoint. You should never touch the OOB files in the 12 hive. Next time you apply an update or service pack all of your changes are gone. Also, by touching the OOB files, you automatically lose all support from Microsoft.
Rather, you should either a) develop a SharePoint feature that publish a custom master page with your CSS changes or b) do master page changes using SharePoint designer.
Core.css is always shared by all web applications.
AS magnus said what u have seen is due to the browser caching or somehthing like that. delete the browser cache or Restart the browser and then try again..
May this help you
Thanks
My site currently has some static pages. I'm looking for a rails wysiwyg webtool with which I can change those static pages (with images) dynamically. The number of pages is fixed and I don't have to be able to dynamically add new.
Update
The site already has a design template assigned which I don't need to change. I only need to be able to change the content of some of the pages.
Someone can suggest me something?
Thanks
Stijn
Are you looking for a server site tool that facilitates editing static HTML files but uses a web browser interface?
If so I think that only solves part of the problem. You pages still have, presumably, some common "furniture" like a Banner pane, Left pane, Right pane, Footer. If you want to change these you will have to edit every file. What about if you have telephone number in the Banner - if that changed it would be better to just change that centrally.
These are problems that a Content Management System addresses, so if you are not familiar with that you may want to read up on CMS.
To compare CMS systems see: http://cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix?func=search
You can enter "Rails" or maybe "Ruby" in the Language field of the Search form
Try Radiant CMS