I am new to Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Template. Created a Team project with Scrum 1.0 Template. After that in TFS a Team work Item menu is having following work items
Bug
List item
Impediment
Product Backlog Item
Shared Steps
Sprint
Task
Test Status
however, in my organization another project is having some of additional work items like follow
Code Review Item
Release
Acceptance Test
Sprint Retrospective
Sprint Backlog Task
Do we need to modify any setting in TFS Server to bring this above items?
Please guide to proceed further.
"Code Review Item" might be in correlation with TFS Code review workflow. If so, it would require you to insert it in each new TeamProject for the while thing to be usable.All other Work Item types do not ring any bell to me, so my best guess is that they are custom types.In order for you to import them in your newly constructed TeamProject you need to have the latest Power tools installed.Open VS and navigate to "Tools">"Process Editor">"Work Item Types">"Export WIT". Select the old Team Project & export to your PC the XMLs that correspond to each of your missing types.Once you are done, use "Import WIT" to insert these XMLs into your new TeamProject. This should do it.
Those other items must be from a different template. They're not part of the Microsoft Scrum Template.
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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
I am using TFS 2017 Update 1, installed on a Windows server machine.
Is it possible to display all "assigned to me" work items of all collections of a TFS server inside a unique dashboard or inside Visual Studio ?
For example, the TFS server web site allows to display all "assigned to me" work items of a collection.
So :
Is there a parent page inside TFS server web site, that allows to display all "assigned to me" work items of all collections ?
Is there also a way to display all "assigned to me" work items from the startup menu for example ?
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
No. Team Project collections are intended to be totally isolated instances. There is no reporting across team project collection boundaries. The intended use-case for Team Project Collections is to allow hosting of multiple "instances" of TFS from one central server. For example, an organization with many totally independent subsidiaries that do not share code or employees would have a perfect scenario for multiple team project collections. Most organizations require only a single team project collection.
You can take advantage of the REST APIs to write whatever sort of custom data aggregation script your heart desires.
I am using Visual Studio 2012, TFS 2012, and I want to do this for PBI (Product Backlog Items)
I would like to add a "button" or something of the sort to help me create Tasks for my PBIs. (This is something I have been requested to do).
So as I am Viewing a PBI or a List of PBIs I could have a button that popups a Window inside Visual Studio with some options which will trigger the creation of different tasks and such. Is this possible?
Or should I create a separate program that will allow me view the WorkItems and implement the functionality there (for example with C#/WPF)
You should look at following links. Looks like you are looking to create/update work items in bulk. You can easily import your pbi work items to excel and add/update in bulk or also use work item templates for that.
If that doesn't work then you can write code using TFS API to create work items and do other things as well. Using that you can have your own form and add custom steps and then call Api to create the work items.
TFS API to create work items:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3280.tfs-2010-api-create-workitems-bugs.aspx
Use work item templates to pre-populate fields:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff407162.aspx
Bulk add or modify work items with Excel:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286627.aspx
Bulk modify work items:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh409280.aspx
This already exists out of the box. When viewing a PBI go to the Tasks tab and click New. It will create a new Task that is automatically linked back to the PBI. It will also set the Iteration and Area to match the Parent PBI.
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.
Is there a way to setup a specific tab order for the visible fields on a custom work item template?
While this applies to TFS 2010, this article might be covering what you are asking about.