Using TFS 2013 and Visual Studio 2013 Premium Preview is it possible to take ownership of another person's code review task?
The situation I have is that another developer has requested a code review and then gone on holiday. The code review has been performed and updates are required to the code in light of the review comments. I would like to action the review comments myself before the original developer returns from holiday, but I can't find a way to assign the code review task to myself like I can do with any other work item.
Obviously I could simply look at the code review comments and action them anyway, but I would have to remember to explain all of this to the returning developer so that they close the review appropriately. It would be so much nicer to be to assign the code review task to myself and action the comments as if I had requested the review in the first place.
You should be able to create a new work item query and find the Code Review Request/Response work items and then change the Assigned To field to the appropriate person. Have you tried that route yet? All of the code review workflow items are simply work items in TFS. You get all of the normal benefits of work items!
Use the 'Open Work Item in Microsoft Excel' or 'Open Query in Microsoft Excel'.
There it will let you change the Assigned To. Then press publish.
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I went to my company's Power Apps Admin centre and there was a button saying 'Create my database'
In the attempts of creating a Microsoft Automate business process, I clicked this button and it asked what currency I want to use in the database and what language. I chose accordingly and like a real idiot, clicked 'Create my database' button again without reading anything.
Now I am freaking out as I don't know if this is going to cost my workplace. Did I create an empty database? Or a data server? I don't know how to undo/ delete. disable what I did.
The questions are:
Is this going to cost our company?
If so, how do I undo this/ disable the CDS?
There is also a link saying 'You can manage these settings in the Dynamics 365 Administration Center.'
I clicked this link and I will attach what I see when I click them. Seems like I created something today and I don't even know what I created.
Please help me to understand what I did and the financial impact of it.
Thank you in advance!
My partner and I created a custom task form to be used in Outlook using the developer mode to do that, and we published it to the Organization Forms Library for anyone to open. We're running into issues that I personally can't seem to find on how to resolve:
Custom forms aren't syncing correctly.
When I complete out the custom form, and I assign it to someone else they might be missing details like the dates I picked from the date picker, and text within the text box are gone too. It's very odd that sometimes some would get all the details that an end-user would input but that's like a 1/8 chance. I feel like there's a disconnect where it just won't behave like any other task. Cache mode or no cache mode doesn't matter it seems. When the person assigns it back with changes made on their end, those changes aren't seen on my side. I just have the same original details that I made when I first made it. We're on Exchange Server 2010.
Looks like a custom form was not published correctly to others in the organization. Try to create a new Outlook item on other machines with your custom forms to make sure they were deployed correctly.
Note, message forms default to separate layouts for composing and reading. Many people find their first message form doesn't look right when they receive an item created with it. That's simply because they forgot to click the Edit Read Page button and customize the Read layout!
You may find the Customizing Outlook Message Forms article helpful.
Using TFS 2013 from Visual Studio 2012/2015, a developer requests a code review from me for a shelveset (I've seen their screenshot). However, the request never appears in my work items.
Any ideas why?
Also, same shelveset, I can view and comment using the web portal, but the portal has no "Send with Comments" button that I can see.
Should I be able to do that?
You can not search work items for code review because they in hidden category: https://hemantmahajan08.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/new-workitem-type-but-hidden-in-microsoft-tfs-2012/
You can find code review requests on My Work panel only: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfvc/get-code-reviewed-vs
Also you may try to remove code review work item types from hidden category, but I did not try this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/work/customize/reference/witadmin/witadmin-import-export-categories
Visual Studio 2017
Microsoft Teams
Scenario:
Within Teams we have a team with a tab that contains a spreadsheet. Users can enter information w/ a new number and the name of the person responsible etc.
Is it possible that when this item is entered that an email can automatically be sent to the person responsible from within Teams?
I have done some initial research and so far I do see where you can create apps BUT I just would like to know if what I am proposing is possible and if so would it be a monumental undertaking or shouldn't be too difficult.
Any thoughts/feedback appreciated,
Thank you
There are actually two problems to solve here. One, how to detect that something happened in Excel. Two, to take action on that event and send email.
For both of these, you can create Excel macros using VBA (transforming the file from xlsx to xslm). XSLM files require the full Excel client though and don't run well on the web version of Excel. I can't think of another way to do it using Excel.
When entering a work item in TFS2010, it's often nice to refer to other tickets in the text free fields (either description or Acceptance Criteria field).
Most other ticket tracking software I have used automatically creates links/hyperlinks to other tickets if you put appropriate text into these fields (e.g, Trac, BugTracker.NET, etc).
I understand the link tab, and that you can create relationships there, but it would be lovely to have this feature available and clickable in the other text field.
Does TFS2010 (+ Visual Studio 2010) support something like this? I cannot find for the life of me, a solution.
If you use a rich text edit field (the advanced text field available for work item definitions, with coloring buttons and so on), you can include hyperlinks, also to other workitems etc. This is however a manual exercise to make the hyperlink point to the correct item, there is no automatic recognition of #-tags or whatever to refer to other workitems.
Hi you could use a plugin called TFS Extensions Kit. TEK workitem. This is a Visual Studio extension that allows, besides other features, to open, in Visual Studio, workitems and queries from a Hyperlink.
So you could use the hyperlinks in any field.
Look at the Visual Studio Gallery:TFS Extensions Kit. TEK workitem
You can download a demo from here
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It's an old question, but if you get here looking for the answer for VSTS the answer is hashtag followed by itemId. Similar to #UserName to reference another user.
Eg. In comments box typing This is a dupe of #2428 will translate into This is a dupe of User Story 2428: Story name where User Story 2428: Story name is a link to the item.