Is it possible for users to create their own list of team projects across collections?
An example of the proposed TFS structure:
Collection1\TeamProject1
Collection1\TeamProject2
Collection2\TeamProject3
Collection2\TeamProject4
If user1 wanted to view only TeamProject1 and TeamProject4, they would be able to create their own index of teamprojects that include just those two.
I know this is possible within a collection, as they just select the project(s) within the collection they wish to open. Is there a way to do this across collections?
I don't think that's possible. A single connection to one Team Collection is possible at a time, and then any number of Team Projects within this Collection can be selected to be viewed.I simply open two Visual Studio instances and open in each a connection to another Collection.
Hopefully this will be implemented in TFS11, according to this article the process will be streamlined a bit, so I'd hope people will be able to work across multiple collections easier.
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I am new to TFS and know the basic concepts. In my case we have customized TFS a lot which contains around 17 collections, custom fields in work items etc.
I have some queries for which I require some answers. The questions might be generic, but any help or suggestions on the below queries would be great.
Following are my queries:
1.) Show Work Item ID in a specific format. Can it be done
2.) Auto Fill custom fields for a work item based on a category / linked bugs (analogous to Relative Path column type)
3.) While raising a WI through Visual Studio development tool, the datepicker only takes date value and not time. The same work items when raised through web portal the datepicker gives time value as well.
4.) Auto Fill the efforts spent in Child Work items (summation of all child link items in the parent)
5.) Reminders to be sent if iteration / scrum set date crossed. Also check for Work Items as well, if set date is crossed.
6.) Create Queries which can query across all collections / verticals. Currently queries can be made only against each entire collection, but not across all collections. Do we have any mechanism to query against multiple collections?
7.) Email alerts customizations in TFS.
8.) Can the collections be merged into 1 default collection.
I have tried to find few answers from my end as well, and would like to know, if it is correct.
1.) Work Item ID cannot be shown in a specific format as it is system generated
2.) For Auto Filling of Work Item fields, it cannot be done. Manual approach is the only way (unless there is a way to pre-populate fields
3.) One can only query for all projects in a single collection. But it is not possible to query against multiple collections and get the results.
So require assistance on the above queries and also validate the answers I have got for few of my questions.
Any help or suggestions or relevant links would be great.
Thanks In Advance!!!..
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You are right. This is by designed. You can not change to use other
format of work item.
Yes. This could not be done at present. It's still a user voice, but
on the Roadmap. Support for calculated fields and roll-ups.
Sorry, not get your point.You could use the DateTimeControl type to give users a calendar picker to select a date for a DateTime field. By using this control, you can quickly select a date and time for the field. For details.
You could do this from a sprint backlog or task board. Details
please take a look at our official tutorial here: Rollup of work
and other fields
We do not have this kind of build-in time reminder for work items.
However, as a workaround, There is a dashboard widget that uses #me
in its query.
You can also cobble something together using the REST API and a
scheduled build. Calling a work item query and sending email is
pretty easy from PowerShell.
No, they are using different database. You are only able to query
across team projects int the same project collection.
It's able to do this but with a little bit complicated. For detail
info, please take a look at this link: Customize TFS 2015 alert
email
There is no default way to do this. I do not think there is a
possibility of merging two TFS collections other than creating a new
collection, creating the team projects and use a tool such as TFS
integration tools to move the team projects from the source
collections.
As you can see, history will be rewritten with new dates, changeset
and work items ids etc, if you are trying to merge collections.
we use Asana as our internal project management platform. We would like to use it to interact with our clients so they can see the progress of their projects - which is the same per year. We created the Kanaban view and move the cards through each process. We would like to show this to our clients, but have them only see their card.
Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks
There isn't a way that I'm aware of to have only certain tasks show up to certain people within a project - our access control is limited to the project level, so everyone who can see a project can see all tasks in a project.
One thing you might consider as a workaround is to multi-home the tasks into multiple projects (that is, add them into multiple projects). In this way you can limit membership to the second project to only the people in that set of clients, and have your original project as a master board with just your team in it.
You will have to keep these projects in sync, but this is possible in our API. Our tasks/addProject endpoint accepts both a project and a section (which is admittedly a bit unintuitive). If you maintain a mapping of each section, that is, "ID of Column A in the master board view maps to ID of Column B in the client board view", you can periodically iterate over all your tasks and re-insert each task in the client board view in the correct column based on where the task is in the master board view. (addProject is idempotent across requests, so re-insertions into a project are OK).
This is an interesting use case, thanks for sharing it! Hopefully this workaround will prove to be usable.
Sorry the poor English.
I'm using Visual Studio Team Services for a first time, and I follow the guided tour where I created three work items as example. Basic conceptions learned, I then deleted these first example work items and started to Create my own work items. Their numbering was sequential to the three first ones.
I managed to delete my Project to start a new one. I was think a new Project will start its work items from number 1 onwards, but the numbering from the deleted one is being used. I tried creating the repository with another Project name but no success.
I wasn't able to find how this is occurring, and it's very annoying to me. Someone has any idea about what's going on and how to correct this behavior (unless this is a feature)? Thanks in advance.
In TFS you have a Collection Database, that has a WorkItem table, all Work Item Id's are sequential in that table. A Collection contain one or more Team Projects. To reset the numbers you would have to create a new Collection.
In VSTS Collections are not a concept that you can manage, you have an account instead, you would probably have to delete and re-create your account - I don't think there is any way to create a new Collection in your account - I may be wrong, I'm only a personal user of VSTS.
I wouldn't worry too much about what ID's each work item has. I don't think it matters that much, you will soon lose control of them. Every WI you create has a new incremental ID, you you get Bug #1, Test Case #2, PBI #3, and so on. If you have >1 Team Project you will also end up with that taking ID's from you.
Can we add/modify the filter of the boards:
Work/Backlog/product backlog/board(the stories/backlogitems)
Should be able to filter the Iterations/Sprints
Work/board(tasks)
Should be able to change the Areapath filtering
Is there any way to change the default filter and/or add quick filters?
As per this post, you can't really amend the underlying
query for the task board:
How do I change the underlying query for the task board (and backlog board) on TFS Preview
Although as mentioned the tags in TFS 2012 Update 2 can help.
However we achieved something similar to what you are
asking by creating a team per product.
In the web control panel for your team project, create teams (and area paths) for
each product you are interested in.
In the control panel, for each of these teams, you can set which
iterations are associated with them. So for a particular team,
you associate only the iterations you are interested in for that
product.
You are then able to switch between teams via a drop-down at the
top-left in the TFS web interface (you will need to use Browse All
originally.)
See Multiple Teams with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012 & Visual Studio Scrum V2.0 for a good reference for this.
The Work Item Tagging feature in TFS 2012 Update 2 can help.
Other than that, you can write your own plugin.
What is the best way to store a task for multiple users in TFS 2010 ? I can only assign one for one task.
(for example: when I plan a demo to all developers)
(this is a scrum Msf Agile project, where the task is part of a user story)
I'm sorry to tell you that you can't assign multiple users to a single work item out of the box; At the same time, I do not recommended trying as this, as it does not fit the model in TFS. The conventional / recommended way to handle this type of scenario is to create multiple tasks; one for each developer in this case. You can easily accomplish this by copying a set of tasks using MS Excel. Another option (given the example you used) is to create a "Meeting" work item that has multiple drop-downs - one for each person that would attend meetings like for a demo or a technical review.
Yet another option is to create a custom control to format and store a list of users. This would likely be relatively complex to maintain, as you have to distribute it to each user's machine (it will need to be installed locally), and last I checked you would need 2 versions; one for the Team Explorer user interface and another for the Web Access tool that most people use to create work items from a web page on their TFS server. Future updates to TFS could possibly break your custom control. It is rarely worth the effort. Another downside is the you would likely be limited by how you can use MS Excel to work with the data you store in the field that the custom control works with. If you want to look into this further you can find some examples in the following CodePlex project: http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com/
You might consider your true goals in tracking such things as meetings and other items you want to assign multiple people to. Tasks are the heart of tracking progress of user stories in the MSF Agile Template. Tracking meeting attendance does not typically relate directly to a User Story, for example; so it won't typically assist you to determine how much close you are to being "done" with a User Story. If you want to take advantage of the existing reports, then you should organize your tasks so that they roll up as child work items to User Story (or Bug) work items.
Short story: you can't. Work items in the Process Template of Microsoft are designed to target nobody or only one User.
Now you can customize the Process Template to change this.
Take this post for instance, the customization works for group. But I don't recommend you to do so because TFS is basically not designed for that and you may end up disappointed.