I have a quick question - I erroneously selected the "Backlog Iteration for this team" designation while setting up a child iteration in TFS 2012 web access (right clicking on the Iterations admin page). I cannot find any way to remove this. I can move it to a different iteration (I don't want to do that) but I cannot figure out how to completely remove it altogether. I do have admin permissions.
Is this something I can remove in Visual Studio instead?
Any assistance you can provide is appreciated.
Maybe too late for this but if you go to the parent node of the selected iteration and select it that will make the magic :)
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After (or before) we convert from TFS 2012.2 to TFS 2015.3 (which we have done just fine in a test run) we would like to revert our team project to the standard TFS 2015 Agile process template, and no longer use the customized agile process that we had modified from TFS 2012. We are quite willing to delete all of our work items and start over, but need to keep the team project history and change sets. Anyone know how to do this? Answers to prior questions on this did not address this situation. Thanks.
There is no easy way to do it. Basically the steps require you to use a lot of witadmin commands. Start by deleting any work item types that were added and don't exist in the default template.
Then push the standard work item definition for each work item type.
Then push the categories
Then push the process configuration
Then delete any fields that are no longer used
That should bring you back to the standard template.
An alternative you could try is to use the WitMorph project. You can write a set of rules to migrate your data back into working order.
Is there a way to set user permissions to restrict changing states (status) or moving items from one sprint (iteration) to another in Microsoft TFS 2015?
Appreciate the help!
"Changing the state of the work item" and "Moving the work item to a different iteration" are both examples of a more generic permission - Edit Work Item. It is defined on area level in TFS. For a specific area path you can deny "Edit work items in this node" permission, and the user won't be able to
Change the state of work items in this area
Move the work items in this area to a different iteration
Modify the work items in any other way
First two points is what you aim for. The last is probably not. If you need to granular permissions on a field level, I am almost sure it is not possible.
I am doing a working semester right now, with the course of study bachelor of business computing. I am not an expert in coding (think got some OK basics) nor I am a 100% fluent in English as my 2nd language so be a bit gentle on mistakes or "bumpy" formulations.
My Task:
I am working on a template, which will be handed to the company's project managers to make it easier for them to "load up" backlogs into TFS and assign tasks via MS Project.
The template itself is kinda finished right now, but I have one more problem to tackle.
Automatizing the "Create Relationship Process" between Backlog Items and Tasks
TFS cant create "Parent-Child-Relationships" with the "Parent Backlog" not published yet.
This means, I have to find a way (thinking of a macro/VBA) to create the relationships AND to publish some items of MS Project first, then creating the relationship and publish the rest.
Macro Start --> publish all backlogs --> creating relationships --> publish relations + tasks --> Macro End
The tricky part for me is, that it has to be as simple and intuitive as possible to use.
I hope I managed to impress myself at least a little bit understandable and someone has a little help for me.
I used Google and the Stackoverflow Search, but didn't get a satisfying answer.
There is out of the box integration between TFS and both Excel and MS Project. If you install Team Explorer you will get a "Team" tab in both products.
Well it was my own bad.
I only tried to for testcases the first 5-10 Tasks/Backlogs. But for MS Project + Tfs you need to fix all "publish errors" to get the connections to work #tfs.
Greetings Declade
I'm working on a couple of million records, as soon as I try to run an advanced find, and put as a criteria a linked entity, the advanced find goes in timeout.
Create custom views on this allows me to filter properly? Anyone knows the proper way of using the advanced find this way? Are there limitations on the out of the box CRM that i should be aware of?
In CRM 2013 - it is possible to add indexes for specific fields by adding the columns to the quick find view for the entity.
You will need to wait for the Indexing Management Job to run (which is run every 24 hours by default) - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/darrenliu/archive/2014/04/02/crm-2013-maintenance-jobs.aspx.
In previous version of CRM, it was necessary to add the indexes directly to the database - this may be necessary for more complex queries.
was too early to post an answer. The problem that I encountered was related to the OOB advanced find. Looking for example for an account with some related contacts (a really plain search with a linked entity) i had a SQL timeout. Everything was OOB so I was a little bit clueless and I opened a case to Microsoft. They found a bug, if i was changing the sorting the advanced find started to work again. They are still investigating. So wasn't a setting problem but a crm bug.
I have been playing around with TFS (Team Foundation Server) on my visual studio 2012.
I went to Work Items and I saw My Bugs,My Tasks,My Test Cases.
All are empty at the moment. I want to know how can I set up a test case in TFS > Work Items > My Test Cases? Or Add Bugs in My Bugs.
I also read somewhere - Cant remember now - You can actually edit the my test case screen to some of your own test case criteria.
Anyone know's about this or where I can start?
These are just Queries that run over all the work items. Users with appropriate permissions can edit them, but the changes will apply to the whole team.
You can copy and paste them from Shared Queries into My Queries and work on them.
The way they work is looking for any work item assigned to the viewer of the query (using a variable called #Me in the filter) that has the Bug / Task / Test Case Work Item type and is not closed.
Here's an example of "My Tasks" from my MSF Agile Project:
When you view the results, there is button in the top right called "Edit Query" to get this view.
You can create new bugs , or other work items by clicking on the team menu. You can then create new work items and assign them to yourself or other members of your team