How can i narrow down number of work items in menu in Team Foundation Server when i am using Team web access?
I need to change work items based on user rights.
EG :
Users -> add bug, issue
Managers -> Add task
Developers -> All
Example of the work items below:
There is on Visual Studio UserVoice already a suggestion on this.
The product team responded with the following comment: "We’re planning on making some work item types (like Shared Steps) not visible in the new work item menu in clients like Visual Studio and Web, where they don’t make as much sense"
So you might expect this to be possible in the next version of TFS.
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I'm trying to add work items from TFS to Visual Studio in the below hierarchy as they are in TFS. Anyone know how to do it?
- EPIC
- Feature
- Requirement
The My Work panel in Visual Studio does not support any hierarchy view. It is a small and simple section with the brief work items description. Just try to imagine a query result with 10 child levels in that window ))
You have to use the Work Items panel and the Queries section.
Unfortunately, this is not available at present.
If you use the new work item tracking with Visual Studio 2017 and above, you may have noticed that work items now open in a browser window by default.
To ensure compatibility with the new process customization capabilities, new controls and the new Work item form options, just you keep Visual Studio open work items in the browser.
So we encourage users to track work items in web portal. Work items in Visual Studio is used to do some simply track. There is no structure to how the work items are listed. Your requirement could not be achieved now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I need to let users register bugs similar to how it is done in Bug tracking systems.
I'd like to create user friendly form with a layout which will guide user. Standard Create New Workitem interface is too overloaded for users.
Today we manually look through inbox and register bugs in TFS ourselves. This is really a pain. Users often do not mark the message in subject as a bug. You need to read it to understand user has a problem. Sometimes you need to ask them about the criticality level and what the deadlines for fixing it are.
It is easy to miss important message and this process distracts from main activity.
(Based on you having Visual Studio and having already connected to TFS in there)
In Visual Studio, via the menu, choose Tools > Process Editor > Work Item Types > Open WIT from server
EDIT: You will need to install the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools Extension in Visual Studio to gain access to that menu option above
You will then be presented with a popup box. At this point you will need to navigate to the Project Collection you wish to make changes in. Once selected you will then be presented with a list of forms you can edit. e.g. Task, Bug, Code Review etc.
If you select Task you will then be taken to a form where you will have 3 tabs. Fields, Layout and workflow. From here you have a certain level of customisation available.
I found a couple of articles (below) around customising templates. One is for TFS 2015, the other is for TFS 2013.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/12/10/adding-a-custom-field-to-a-work-item.aspx (TFS 2015)
https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/customizing-team-foundation-server-2013/ (TFS 2013)
NOTE: Menu option Open WIT from server will make changes directly on the server. There are other option where you can make changes locally, then import those changes in. The above is just a way to get you to the screen to customise the forms so that you can take a look around.
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.
I am considering moving from FogBugz to TFS 2012 for our bug/defect tracking. In FogBugz it's easy to create areas such as Database, Reports, etc. I went to the work items area and it had one that matched the project name. I created children of that to match our different teams. I later decided to add teams in TFS (I'm new to TFS, a lot to figure out!) so it created work areas to match the teams. So now I have:
ProjectName
--Blah
--Blah Team
--Foo
--Foo Team
Now I want to go back and delete Blah and Foo because it is foolish and confusing the way it is now.
How can I delete these work item areas I no longer want?
Thank you.
Go to team web access then right-click the items you no longer want and a context menu will appear with options such as delete.
We have a team that consists of a number of non-developers - for these non-developers to create and modify Work Items, would they need to have VS 2010 / Team Explorer installed on their machines? Or is it possible to create and modify Work Items through the project's SharePoint site or some other built-in means?
I've not yet installed a full test TFS 2010 instance, so I can't check it out myself.
You can also create or edit workitems using Team System Web Access portal which will be configured as part of TFS2010 Installation. You can access this portal using this URL: http://[TFSServer]:8080/tfs/web
You can also configure users to access the restricted version of this portal(Work Item Only View) which the users can connect without using CAL. In this version, the users can add or edit the workitems only created by them.
You can create and edit work items from the sharepoint site for a team project in TFS 2010. but the users will still need a Client Access Licence (CAL) to do more than very basic work item management. The url will be something like http://[tfsServer]/sites/[tfsCollection]/[tfsTeamproject]/Dashboards/ProjectDashboard_wss.aspx. If you right click on the Team Project in Team Explorer and select "show project portal" then it will open a browser in the correct location.
I think the licence basically says that users can create and modify their own work items without a CAL. If they need to view work items created by other users, or allocate work items to other users, then a CAL is required.