Bamboo Wallboard order of plans - bamboo

We have a bamboo setup for our build environment(s) and every time we build something the bamboo wallboard gets updated with the result of the build (just like it is shown at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO40/Displaying+the+Wallboard). This is normal behavior. I would like to change the order of items in the bamboo wallboard so that the plan for the last built item is put to the first position on the wall. Is this possible?
Thx

Sorry but as it stands right now, there is no way to order the builds on wallboard by last built time.

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TFS Build XAML Template at “AssociateChanges” step get all the Work Items since begging of the source code branch created

I have asked a similar question
TFS Build Configuration: get all the Work Items Details for a particular build
And based on the answer of above question I have the below query. I decided to start a new thread for new question rather than confusing people in same thread.
I am using a default XAML template for workflow of TFS build configuration. Now my requirement is that I need all the Work Items since beginning whenever I trigger a build event for any build definition regardless of last successful build.
Let say I have triggered first TFS build and it is succeeded then I triggered 2nd build and that is also succeeded.
Then I have opened the log file of 2nd successful build and goes to Diagnostics Tab of last build. Inside Diagnostics tab there is a section as “Associate the changesets that occurred since the last good build”
Inside this it will display a message like
"No change sets are submitted to build 'ABC…..'"
Whereas I require list of all the work items since beginning.
Please suggest me the changes which need to be done in XAML template so that I can get all the work items since the beginning of source code.
As we know, associate the changesets and work items only occurs since the last good build.
There is a simple workaround to achieve what you want, you can specify a previous changeset to queue a build, then build the latest changeset again, then you'll get the associated changesets and work items again. Refer to this blog: http://chamindac.blogspot.sg/2013/09/tfs-2012-get-release-build-with.html
Otherwise, you need to create a MSBuild custom task that makes a call to TFS for the items. Check the links below:
https://volatilecoding.com/2013/06/11/tfs-build-how-to-customize-work-item-association/
(this solution is for TFS2010/TF2012 build process template, you'll
need to work on TFS 2013 build process template).
http://devgorilla.net/?p=104

RUnnin a customized plan in Bamboo

I often have to run a customized plan in Bamboo (the same one every time). So I find the plan, do a run customized and change the environment variables and test file and do a run. This is OK but it gets old. Is there a way to save the customized plan so I can run it? Or save the changes so when I run customize plan I can select that?
You can create plan branch and override variable for it

TeamCity REST API: Who broke the build?

In our office we use a custom Geckoboard to display information about our current build status from our TeamCity 8 build server.
We display recent check-ins/changes, using the following REST query: http://teamcity.internal.com:8080/httpAuth/app/rest/changes?project:ProjectName&locator=count:10
We also calculate the last time the build was broken with this REST query: http://teamcity.internal.com:8080/httpAuth/app/rest/builds?locator=project:ProjectName
However what we've not just been able to do is link the two.
In other words:
For recent changes to determine if the checkin lead to a broken build
For the last time the build was broken determine who made that checkin
Based on the source code here and documentation here
I believe you want something like the following
http://teamcity.internal.com:8080/httpAuth/app/rest/changes?locator=build:(status:FAILED,project:ProjectName,lookupLimit:1)
This should return the changes associated with the last FAILED build, I haven't tested because I don't use TeamCity.
Also see the following StackOverflow question in order to get changes for a specific build.

Display history of a single test result in Jenkins - additional plugin or config issue?

Currently our Jenkins server only displays a history/graph for the overall number of passed/skipped/failed tests - I'm assuming that's the behavior out of the box.
If you select a single test, you'll get information for how long the test was failing (assuming it did fail).
However, we'd like to see is a history for that single test across the different builds to identify whether the test has been failing in the past (and when) even though it just passed. If you find a build where it failed, you could click on it, and investigate what might have caused the failure; if it passes again, you could check whether something actually fixed the test, or whether it was failing randomly all along.
Is this something that can be done somehow through the config, or do we need an additional plugin for this? If yes, which one?
Not sure if this makes much difference, but we're using Java (Maven) & TestNG (Surefire).
Both the TestNG plugin and the JUnit plugin will actually display history of the test results.
You just need to pick a given result and then:
For JUnit click on "History" on the left side, and
For TestNG click you will see the history in the graph above the result. You can just click on the bars in the bars to see the older results, and also if you click closer to the edge, the scope of the test results will adjust
The Test Results Analyzer plugin does the job for me. There appears to be other suitable plugins out there as well.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Test+Results+Analyzer+Plugin
Does the Static Code Analysis plugin help?

TFSBuild:How to trigger a build only when a particular file is checked in?

We have a particular file, say X.zip that is only modified by 1 or 2 people. Hence we don't want the build to trigger on every check-in, as the other files are mostly untouched.
I need to check for a condition prior to building, whether the checked-in item is "X.zip" or not.. if yes, then trigger a build, else don't. We use only CI builds.
Any idea on how to trigger the build only when this particular file is checked-in? Any other approaches would be greatly appreciated as i am a newbie in TFS...
Tara.
I don't know of any OOTB feature which can do this, what you would need to do is write your own custom MSBuild task which is executed prior to the build running (pre-build action).
The task will then need to use the TFS API to check the current check in for the file you want and if it's not found you'll have to set the task to failed.
This isn't really ideal as it'll indicate to Team Build a build failure, which, depending on whether you're using check in policies, may be unhelpful. It'd also be harder to at-a-glance work out which builds failed because of the task and which failed because of a real problem.
You can change the build to occur less frequently rather than every check in, which will reduce load on your build server.
Otherwise you may want to dig into Cruise Control .NET, it may support better conditional builds.
If you could move X.zip into it's own folder, then you could set up a CI build with a workspace that only looked at the folder containing X.zip.
You would then need to add an explicit call to tf get to download the rest of the code as Team Build only downloads what the workspace is looking at.
But this might be simpler than the custom task approach?