One of my users noticed something weird with the TFS 2012 Team Web Access. She enters the Test Case work item using Test Manager.
One of the steps is multi-lined.
Saved fine on TM.
However, everyone sees the HTML encoding on Team Web Access.
Is there a fix for this or is this the default behaviour?
This is the TFS 2010 web access. You should use the 2012 version and this won't be a problem any more.
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Suddenly all my previous and current TFS tasks are not seen when I use Visual Studio 2015.
If I use visual studio 2012 or web portal TFS, I see all my tasks.
update - 06 OCT 2016 - 5:20 PM IST.
We did further investigation. The situation is that our company had users in TFS using Sharepoint user IDs. Later the Domain controller was introduced and everyone migrated to the domain. So now we have two users (with different domains) for the old users who were present at the time of Sharepoint user base.
We did SQL Profiler on the TFS DB while running Query from Web Portal and VS 2015 for affected user.
[![two users returned from TFS][1]][1]
then VS2015 takes the old user (Which we dont want) to find all Assigned work items as shown below
Now IF i manually go change the query text and add FABRICAM in the domain or IF i run the query from WEB Portal, the correct user is picked up and results start showing as shown below
This works well with my VS2015. Please double check if it can work with web portal.
Try to clear TFS and VS cache and try it again.
Main issue: I need to develop an automated way to create new SharePoint pages when an item is added to a SharePoint list. For example, we have a list of projects, and when a new project is added to the list, we want a custom website for that project to automatically be created from a template.
What I've tried: I have been researching this a lot, and it sounds like SharePoint Event Receivers can do what I need. So I got Visual Studio (both Visual Studio and SharePoint are 2010). However, I still cannot automate my child pages. I get an error message when I try to do anything SharePoint-related in Visual Studio: "A SharePoint server is not installed on this computer. A SharePoint server must be installed to work with SharePoint projects."
My organization is not big on new software, so getting more than Visual Studio is probably not possible. In addition, I will not be granted admin rights, so I don't know if I will even be able to use Visual Studio. (Also I'm pretty sure my SharePoint is not locally installed, but I don't know much about software set-up/configuration...I just want it to work so I can code!) I do have full rights to the SharePoint site, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Is there a way to solve this issue with only coding in SharePoint? Or is there a way to do it with just Visual Studio (non-admin) and SharePoint?
In order to develop solutions for SharePoint 2010 you need to have SharePoint 2010 installed on your dev machine. You can install SharePoint 2010 Foundation which is free.
Before you start development you need to decide which kind of solution you gonna create - sandboxed solution or farm solution.
Sandboxed solution has some limitations in functionality but you do not need admin access to the server to deploy it, only site collection administrator rights on site collection.
On the other hand farm solution allows you to use any available SharePoint object model APIs. But to deploy it you need to have admin access to the server (or at least IT guy with admin access who can run some ps scripts).
The decision mostly depends on what are you going to develop. If you have some requirements which do not fit for sandboxed solution then you have to go with farm solution.
From what you've described I think sandbox solution is enough.
I have recently upgraded my microsoft dynamics crm from 2011 to 2013, all seemed to go accordingly however whenever i try to access any of my reports custom or out of the box they refuse to load. I either get an error which says the report cannot be loaded (rsprocessingaborted) and if not this then it totally refuses to load almost as if some script is being blocked(2nd screenshot). I'm completely lost on this and any help will be greatly appreciated :-)
Try turn on trace, restart IIS and reproduce an error. Then recheck trace file to get explanation of an error.
I had the same problem when I run a CRM migration.
Just follow the steps :
http://ashwaniashwin.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/crm-2011-reporting-error-the-report-cannot-be-displayed-rsprocessingaborted/
Note that this is the same as the steps in the Microsoft KB article, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/946585, which in summary involves ensuring if SQL Server Reporting Services service is running under the Local System account to add the NT Authority\SYSTEM to Security -> Logins in SQL Server Management Studio and to add this account in the User Mapping to the MSCRM_CONFIG and Organization_MSCRM databases with roles of CRMReader, public, and db_owner.
We're looking into migrating to TFS 2010 in the next few weeks. However, we're unclear on what kind of tools are required for the team. We know developers need Visual Studio but what tooling is required for Project Managers and Testers that will ONLY need to manage work items? Do they also need Visual Studio to just view and edit work items?
Project Managers and Testers can use the following methods to access TFS 2010
The web access portal - this allows the ability to create/run queries of work items, and even view source/builds if they want
Excel/Project - Both have integrate with TFS. You are able to load work items directly into Excel/Project, edit them, and publish them back to TFS.
Visual Studio with Team Explorer only - This is a barebones installation of VS, with the Team Explorer only. It doesn't take all that long to install, but it will say "Visual Studio" when launched. Not sure if that is scary to testers/project managers.
Web access provides a good complete set of functionality, but having VS/Team Explorer will provide a rich client experience (read: faster, more responsive).
Additionally, in order to get the Excel/Project integration, you'll need at least the VS/Team Explorer installed on the client box, even if they never use VS. And you need a CAL (Client Access License) to use the web access portal.
So to summarize, TFS provides a lot of ways for the non-developer to interact with the system, but all of them require a CAL, and most of them require installing VS/Team Explorer on the client machine.
In short, they don't need Visual Studio. They can use Team System Web Access (formerly known as TFS Web Access) to do pretty much everything a developer can do, except associate a check-in with a work item. After you install TFS 2010, you simply browse to http://yourserver:8080/Tfs/web and you're in!
Project Managers (and all other team members) can also work with work items from Outlook using 3rd party TFS client embedded in Outlook: TeamCompanion www.teamcompanion.com. This way, assuming they otherwise use Outlook, they wouldn't need to change tools or use any additional tools at all.
As is the case with Excel or Project integration they would still need a TFS CAL and additionally a TeamCompanion license.
TeamCompanion supports much more than just work item management: Email/TFS integration, SQL Server Reports, SharePoint document integration and much more...
Full Disclosure: I am the Product Owner of TeamCompanon, so I may be biased :-).
There is a web front end which you can use to manage the work items. There is also integration to Excel and MS Project.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181304.aspx for more information on Team Foundation Clients
Yesterday I created a new project in Codeplex. I created a connection from Visual Studio to the TFS server I was assigned and uploaded my solution successfully. Today I'm trying to connect again to the Codeplex TFS server to work on the solution. When I try to open it, I get the error:
Team Foundation Server
https://tfs06.codeplex.com/ does not
exist or is not accessible at this
time.
The remote server returned an error:
(407) Proxy Authentication Required.
The corporate environment I'm using does use proxy authentication but this wasn't an issue yesterday. Any ideas on why it worked then and how to make it work now?
Do you want to try refreshing the start page in Visual Studio (View, Other Windows, Start Page)? Sounds bizarre but the following forum post suggest that this might work...
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/thread/c46afd34-09ea-4505-a34e-b378cb35138d
Visiting the Start Page (under View, Other Windows, Start Page) as recommended by Martin seems to reset the proxy authentication in some way.
An authentication prompt will then appear by going to Tools, Connect to Team Foundation Server, and selecting the server from the dropdown. Going to File, Source Control, Go Online then reconnects the solution.