I would like to know if it is possible to set other tasks to "pending" or "inactive" when the user (contributor) set one to active.
I was wondering if i can do that using Workflow or another kind of customization in TFS.
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There's no way to do that if you use the product as it is...
Back in the days of TFS 2005/2008 I wrote a tool to do what you need with very complex possibilities of workflow between work items, but I didn't have the time to rewrite it for 2010 (the typed links introduced in 2010 would change a lot of things).
If you're not afraid to write a custom tool you can read this post and the source code of my codeplex project.
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We have had a restructure of our engineering teams and a wide ranging change to process, as a result we have decided to start a new Jira Project.
We want to keep the existing Ticket Types but our new process will require changes to Jira Workflows. However as we dont want to lose our old project in case there are tickets we decide to Migrate over we want to ensure that the workflows etc for that board do not change.
Is it possible to have different workflows for the same ticket types in Jira at a project level, or am I going to have to create everything from scratch again (Tickets, workflows, screens).
In Jira you can reuse every mentioned thing.
Create another one workflow scheme for second project and make you own issue type<>workflow mapping inside it scheme. Create new workflow if you want make another process for your issues. You can do it a bit easy if changes is minor - just copy base workflow and make you changes instead creating new.
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I am looking for advice.
I have a requirement to generate 5 PBIs under a Feature. We need the user to be able to trigger the process by populating a field for example.
Do I need code for this or is there a codeless method?
I can see that I can build Plugins for TFS. I saw an example or two (although they were related to code check-ins). I would be looking to investigate a trigger around the save of a feature and if a specific thing has occurred generate some child PBIs.
Ideally I would like a codeless method within TFS for this but am happy with investigating a Plugin if necessary.
We are on premise now but may move to online in six months or more.
If you`ll move to online, you have several options and they are not codeless:
Use existing solutions, example: TFS Aggregator
Create a custom web service to listen events and do some actions: Web Hooks
Create a custom application and use it as scheduled task: Automation of state changing for Azure DevOps work items
I realize this is a subjective question, but is MVCContrib dead? The NuGet package has had no updates since 2011, so normally I would consider a project like that dead and likely replaced by something else (i.e. something I should go find and use). I see there are infrequent commits, but having no NuGet package updates is strange.
But I can't find any alternatives for the basic requirement of wanting DRY links and redirects in MVC (i.e. using lambdas over strings for things like ActionLink and RedirectToAction). Has the Microsoft MVC team integrated these features in some hidden namespace that I don't realize? And if not, does anyone know why not? I would have liked to have seem the string-based methods deprecated by now...
So far I see, it is an active project as you can see on commit history. Probably it's not as an active as it was on early stages, it might be possible they think is enough with current features.
Also, take into account that there are nuget packages for every mvc version. For instance, latest one is for MVC 5 and publish date is on 2013-11-21
I want to use Jira for Client acting purposes. I plan the project in Jira, but keep it high level, eg.: Design, Development, QA. These should be visible to the Client. When we move into development I want my devs to create the actual tickets they need, but the Client should not see them. How do I set this up? Thanks!
This can be done with a Issue Security Scheme but the harder part is setting the right security level on a issue according to the issue type. Perhaps a custom post function would be the way to go.
At my company we use the default agile process template with some modificiations. One modification we have made is added a field that indicates how to report time spent on a work item.
What customisations of the default process templates have you made? Have you customised a third party process template or maybe rolled your own from scratch?
I think it would be interesting to learn from others customisations of Team System's process templates.
I've done a number of different modifications for several different clients. The majority of them are to add new "States" and "Transitions" to support the client's change control, and SOX Compliance in once case. That particular client also wanted to enforce security on WHO could change the states in certain transitions - and who the Work Item could be assigned to.
I've also added a number of fields, common is an indicator of an "Emergency Change", additional priority fields - and fields specific to the clients line-of-business.
If you use the "Template Editor" power tool - it is very easy. But follow normal best practices of any development. Have a development server seperate from your production TFS Server (or at very least - a test Team Project). Put your template(s) under version control (I like a seperate Team Project for "TFS Implementation" And make small changes incrementally.