I'm creating some custom work items in TFS and the helptext field seems handy but I don't see where it is being displayed in Team Explorer or Team System Web Access.
Where is this information displayed?
When you hover over the type of the field. For instance create a new bug and hover over the "rank" and you should see "Stack rank used to prioritize work"
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In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind together for both files.
I want to scroll just one of the sides while the other stay pinned also I want to avoid comparing outside on the VS.
I can't find any solution online and there is no obvious option in the VS.
I'm Using VS2015 with TFS.
Thank you.
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New feature request for microsoft was opened
Feature request
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In VS1029 Version 16.11.3 feature exist, by pressing it you can unbind the windows
In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind
together for both files.
For this , I am afraid this is by designed. The same is true for my test in visual studio2019.
You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site , which is our main forum for product suggestions. After suggest raised, you can vote and add your comments for this feedback. The product team would provide the updates if they view it.
I am trying to create a cascading combobox. I have read on the internet that you should be able to very simply use the "Parent Control" on the combobox's "Data" button. But I don't have that control on the data button. I've also read about using a query built directly on the combobox to run in the browser and not on the web. But I'm uncertain as to what that means. I see no build button or anything in the combobox's data button. Can anyone help? Was this something that came out after the app's release that not everybody has? I'm lost. Please, help if you can. Thank you!
It seems that "Parent Control" is not available in on-premises SharePoint and and only available in SharePoint Online. This may be your issue.
In any case there is a simple 3 minute test to see if you can use cascading combo boxes or not:
Create a new Access Web App;
Open the App in Access;
Create a new blank table and add just one short text column (I called it "Test_name"), save the table as "Test_table";
Edit the List view of Test_table and add a new combo box;
Open the combo box's "Data" menu and select Test_table as the Row Source.
Now the "Parent Control" property should have appeared at the bottom of the list of properties for the "Data" menu (see the image). If it hasn't, it means this feature is not available to you.
See diagram
I use TFS 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.
How can I create an identification to a workitem where I can create an alert on?
I have workitems for a specific customer. I added a tag to those workitems. I want an alert when something changes with a workitem with that tag. Because alerts don't support tags, I created a custom field but I also can't set an alert with the "=" operator on that field.
Please help.
Rather than using tags can you try setting an area path for your specific customer, and put the work items under this area? Then you can use the custom alert template "A work item under a specified area path changes" to receive your alerts.
The only solution that I can think of is to add a "tag" to the title of the workitem. We have the taggging and set the tag Foo. We also place the tag in the title like this (Foo). Than we have a query that searches for workitems that only have the real tag and not the title tag. Of course also the other way around.
We are going to use this until the next version were hopefully this feature is added. See for the uservoices the following:
Custom fields in work item alerts and Use tags in alerts.
We've just set up Dynamics CRM 2013. We're using the Outlook 2010 plug-in. A new entity has been created called "Projects," in which the users give the project a name (which is fairly long: Typically something like "2014 Project Name Client Name") and we assign activities and track emails to that project. The problem is that the project name in the blue bar doesn't truncate; instead it spills over the drop-down arrow (which lets you see related activities, contacts, etc) and is un-clickable. Logging in through the web interface, it truncates properly. Is there a way we can force it to truncate after a certain amount of letters, or use the ProjectID field for that label instead of the name? I'm fairly new to Dynamics so a simple solution would be much, much preferred.
A screenshot with an arrow pointing to the over-running field:
We had the same problem when using IE8. In IE9, the long name is truncated properly so the related button/link/whatever it is works as expected. MS unlikely to fix this issue in IE8 just fyi. If it's a custom entity, the primary key field will be the name and that field is used in the UI when it wants to show a record. So you have two options. Change the browser version or only use short names.
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.