Guy kolbis

Last week I visited a customer which is located in England. One of the many things we did is configuring the Web Access. The web access allows users to most of the operations that are available in the Team Explorer using a web browser.

On thing that I really love is the work items view in the web access. One of the problems with the Team Explorer work items view (for instance when you execute a query) is that you cannot see the work items hierarchy. Let me explain that for a minute. Let say that your product manager has gathered a new requirement and added it to TFS as a requirement. Now lets say that from this requirement you have derived 2 Tasks, one for development and the other for testing. So, you have a requirement and 2 tasks that are related to it. In order to relate tasks to requirement, you need to link these tasks using the Links tab in the work item. In the Team Explorer it is hard to see the related / parent work items. However in the Web Access Work Items view, it is displayed really good, as you can see in the following image:

What do you think?