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This post is the fifth and last post that builds the MSProject Guide . See the first post here On this post I will talk about the different links between work items and how it works with MSProject in the Team System 2010. In the Team System 2010(Rosario) there are new types of links a few of them are being implemented by the MSProject. Parent/Child Link In the MSProject we can indent work items. We can see in the screenshot indenting work items. The indentation represents Parent/Child link type....
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...
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...
After we have finished with the Excel guide its time to deal with the MSProject. Team System is integrated with MSProject which gives the user the ability to use all the grate features of the MSProject and still work directly with the TFS (Team Foundation Server), for example lets say that I have a project gantt already built in the MSProject, instead of adding new tasks to the system one by one I can do it with one click of a button, all tasks and there data will be entered to the Team System as...
This post is the seventh and last post that builds the Excel Guide . See the first post here On this post I will show how using the Excel you can create reports with a click of a button, it is important to mention that you need to have the rights on the reporting services server in order to create reports. In the Rosario you don't need to be an expert in order to create a very impressive reports, just follow these simple steps: Step 1: Create a query in order to have more accurate reports , the...
This is going to be an amazing release... Check out the team collaboration features in the new power tools that are about to be released. Read more in Brian Harry's blog post Administrators the salvation is near the corner, in the new power tools there is a grate solution for the custom items publishing !!!
This post is the sixth post out of seven that builds the Excel Guide . See the first post here On this post I will talk about the Parent Child relations between work items and how it works with Excel. In the Rosario there are new type of links , but the most influencing link type that was added to the Rosario is the Parent/Child link . Parent/Child link links many child nodes to each parent node, a parent can have many children but each child have only one parent so what we get is an hierarchy of...
This post is the fifth post out of seven that builds the Excel Guide . See the first post here On this post I will talk about the Get Work Items function and how to Change List Configurations that are available in the Excel. Excel 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 that reason Excel has the “Get Work Items” functionality. To get Work Items do the following steps: Step 1 : Click on “Get Work Items” button Step 2...
This post is the forth post out of seven that builds the Excel Guide . See the first post here On this post I will talk about the Publish and Refresh functions that are available in the Excel. These functions are the back bone of using the Excel with the Team System. The Publish function is used for sending all the changes you made in the Excel 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...
On the 08/09/2008 the ALM User Group gathered in Microsoft Rahanana offices. I had the honor to lecture in that gathering about the "Camano" using my experience from the Team System implementation project in Microsoft were I participate has a senior consultant . The project is the first "Dogfooding" project of the Team System "Rosario" version implementation in the world . The presentation can be downloaded from here . Enjoy!!!
This post is the second post out of seven that builds the Excel Guide. See the first post here On this post I will talk about the export to Excel options that are available in the Team System. There are two options in the Team System to export work items to excel: 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...
In the new release of the "Power Tools" (located here ) there is a new tool that sets email Alerts . In this post I will show how to use this tool. First I have installed the "Power Tools" and opened my Team Explorer , there are two new folders in my menu: "Work Item Templates" that will be covered in a different post and the "Alerts" Double Click the Alerts folder. The Alerts window will be opened. Click the New button to create a new alert . The Alert Settings...
One of the most powerful tools in the Team System is the Excel , when I say Excel I mean the good old Excel tool that we have in our Office tools. Team System is integrated with Excel which gives the user the ability to use all the grate features of the Excel and still work directly with the TFS (Team Foundation Server), for example lets say I need to change the state field of 100 work items from Proposed to Active, with the Team Explorer I will need to go one by one and change its state but with...
Dudu Shmaya has treated us to a new TFS utility. Dudu was inspired by a post by Brian Harry that introduced a plug-in between SnagIt and TFS and decided to create a plug-in to his prefered image cropping tool. You can download both Cropper and the Plug-in from this post . Using the plug we can capture images of the screen and attach them to work items with a simple click on PrtScrn
In the current version of Team System source control there is no support for "Rollback" functionality. Users that had previous experience with other source control systems (VSS for example) often looking for this feature. The way to perform operation similar to VSS rollback in TS is: Get specific version from changeset previous to change you would like to rollback, check it out and then check it. It is not a very convenient way, but it is keeping history of the changes after doing rollback (which...
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