How To Work with Team System using MSProject - Publish and Refresh

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...