December 2008 - Posts
This post is the forth post out of five that builds the MSProject Guide. See the first post here
On this post I will talk about the Get Work Items function that is available in the MSProject.
MSProject is showing the user only the work items he has chosen to see, what if he likes to add more to that list? This is exactly for that reason MSProject has the “Get Work Items” functionality.
To get Work Items do the following steps:
Step 1: Click on “Get Work Items” button
Step 2: In the window that pops up choose the work items to add and click OK.
See you on my next post...
This post is the third post out of five that builds the MSProject Guide. See the first post here
On this post I will talk about the Publish and Refresh functions that are available in the MSProject.
These functions are the back bone of using the MSProject with the Team System.
The Publish function is used for sending all the changes you made in the MSProject to the TFS (Team Foundation Server), which is the server side of the Team System, including new work items you have added.
The Refresh function is used for getting all changes from the TFS.
In order to use the publish function to send your changes click on the “Publish Changes” button from the Team tab or the “Publish” button from the Team toolbar.
When publishing the Team System will check that there are no conflicts.
In case there are conflicts a window with a list of all conflicts will be shown, you will need to solve each of the conflicts to finish the publish.
In order to use the refresh function to send your changes click on the “Refresh” button from the Team tab or the “Refresh” button from the Team toolbar.
When refreshing all changes that were not published will be lost.
The last column in the table of the work items in the MSProject is: “Publish and Refresh” with three options – “Yes”, “No” and “Refresh Only”
Choosing “No” will prevent this line from Publish and Refresh to and from the TFS.
Choosing “Yes” will Publish changes of this line to the TFS and Refresh changes from the TFS.
Choosing “Refresh Only” will prevent this line from Publish changes to the TFS but will Refresh changes from the TFS.
See you on my next post...
This post is the second post out of five that builds the MSProject Guide. See the first post here
On this post I will talk about the export to MSProject options that are available in the Team System.
When exporting to MSProject pay attention to the fact that not all the information is being transferred, in the first post of this guide I said that it is going to be a little different than working with the Excel, in order to manage your project with MSProject the export will take place at the beginning of the project as best practice and from this point it will be managed using the Publish and Refresh functions explained on my next post of this guide.
There are two options in the Team System to export work items to MSProject:
- Export from a query.
- Export from a query result.
In order to export from a query do the following:
Step 1: Create a query in the Team System project. (Creating a query is out of the scope of this guide)
Step 2: Right click the Query you have just created and choose “Open in Microsoft Project” option.
In order to export from a query results do the following:
Step 1: Create a query in the Team System project. (Creating a query is out of the scope of this guide)
Step 2: Run the query
Step 3: From the query results choose the work items you like to export, you can use the Shift and Ctrl buttons from the keyboard.
Step 4: Click the MSProject icon to export or right click and choose the “Open Selection in Microsoft Project” option.
The result of these actions will be an MSProject project with the tasks listed.
See you on my next post (That will be soon this time)
I would like to apologies for not publishing the promised posts for the "How To Work with Team System using MSProject" for such a long time.
The reason for the delay is my military reserves, I have just came back from a long period in the army.
I was places on the Syria boarder with Israel placed on the Golan Heights.
One thing I like to shear with you from this experience is the view, especially the sunrise one of the most powerful views I have seen I hope you can see the beautiful colors in the following pictures and imagine...
