Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking - Visual Studio Team System
Recent update: 2008-3-21

Deadline in Tasks?

342 byte By Kai123 at 2008-3-7
Hi all,when I create a new Task in Team foundation server, isn't it possible to set a deadline? I did not find this option but it would be quite helpful for me. If there is no such setting, how else could I track tasks which are "overdue"? Many thanks in advance! ...

Uninstall TS Plugin

160 byte By VitaliyVoloshchuk at 2008-3-6
Hi all, I made sure, that TS integration into MSProject is implemeted not so good. So I have another question: How can I uninstall TS plugin from My MSProject?

change column width for work item title on check-in

268 byte By JasonD.Camp at 2008-3-5
I can't read the work item titles in the "Check In - Work Items" window because the column width is set too small. I know you can hover over each work item and see the full title, but this is a pain when you have a bunch of work items to choose from. Help!

Office table Pivot

411 byte By simflex at 2008-3-3
Please forgive me for I am not what forum to ask this question. I have installed the office web parts in virtual webpart gallery. Now, I am trying to setup an interactive excel pivot table. We would like it to have same look and feel as though it is the real excel spreadsheet with pivot ...

VS 2003 client plugin to TFS

1005 byte By modd at 2008-3-1
when we try to download the version 1.0 of the product, we get page not found error. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32202966-ef04-442f-8c5c-88bdf15f551c&DisplayLang=en Previously we tried the beta versions, but that leads to error as ...

How to get the next allowed state from the current state programmatically?

1566 byte By JoePD at 2008-2-28
Hello, I am wanting to write some code that will get the allowed transition values (for CoreField.State) for a work item given the current state. I have tried both getting the WorkItemType and FieldDefinitions.AllowedValues, but this gives me all the AllowedValuesCollection for any state. I see ...

Task numbering reset?

402 byte By KTaylor at 2008-2-27
I am getting started creating our first project within VSTS and adding in Tasks. Because of testing the system and such we have added and deleted many tasks, bugs and such items. When I go to create the first actual real task the number is now at 84. Can I reset the numbering some how so if I ...

WorkItemLongTexts table

416 byte By MaxAndrade at 2008-2-26
How are the tables WorkItemAre and WorkItemLongTexts related? I'm trying to create a report with all requirements of a project, containing some details about them and it must include their descriptions too (the only place a could found this information was on WorkItemLongTexts table, but I ...

Comparing fields of a Work Item when filtering event notification

765 byte By MarianoSzklanny at 2008-2-25
Hi, I'm having some troubles setting the Event Filter when subscribing to the WorkItemChangedEvent. I need to compare two values of the work item. For example, I want to know if the Assigned To field was changed. I tried the ...

Extend work item by adding new control type

164 byte By Yuhang at 2008-2-24
I want to assign a task to multiple members. This requires a new "validcontroltype". Does VSTS allow such extension? Thanks, Yuhang.

Open Work Item attachment problem

388 byte By LeonLangleyben at 2008-2-23
Hi,We are having problem to open attached file with non ASCII name (Hebrew). The problem occurs on specific machines only. We receiving IE error message "Internet Explorer cannot download file ...", following by unreadable characters. It looks like TS client can not resolve URL ...

help with wiqlQuery

422 byte By Sanjoyan at 2008-2-22
Hi All, I am learning wiqlQuery but I have an urgent requirement to get the following info: Finding SUM(Completed Hours) for a person between a date range for all projects( or a given project) Actually we want to derive the utilization of a resource..... Please help me with the query, its ...

Automate "Add solution to Source control"

1317 byte By PaulPaschedag at 2008-2-22
Hello, i have an Addin that creates a new solution and adds the currently selected project to it and then creates a new test project. Now i want this newly created solution (and newly created test project) added to source control. The folder in which the solution and new test project reside are ...

How do I delte work items?

353 byte By RomanT at 2008-2-21
Is there a way to DELETE work items? Say the pre-defined template for Agile puts in some items which I don't agree wish - and instead wish to start 'a fresh'. How do I go about deleting work items? So that they would not pollute reports as being closed/completed - even though I did that - ...

Can users add and view work items from the sharepoint portal for the project

276 byte By picflight at 2008-2-20
Hello, I have Team foundation installed and running for my team, however I was not able to find any documentation to let my users view, add, and edit work items from the project portal. Can it be done? Would appreciate any help. Thanks Mike

Custom FieldControl values

4465 byte By Tomast at 2008-2-20
Hi, I am creating custom work item, in fields with type of FiledControl I would like to specify some allowed values. For example MyFileds.MyStatus <FIELD name="MyStatus" refname="MyFileds.MyStatus" type="String" ...

MS Project synchronization

967 byte By VitaliyVoloshchuk at 2008-2-19
1.I worked with MS Project only and I had a number of tasks in it allready. Then I installed and setup Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer. And I began integrate MS Office and TS. 2.I began adding new items to MS Project and publish them into TS 3.One day my MS Project could not connect to ...

Work Item Dependency

195 byte By Yuhang at 2008-2-18
How to specify dependencies among work items? For example, If "work item 1" is active, "work item 2" cannot be editted. Thanks very much, Yuhang.

Get all changesets number that linked to work items

151 byte By MichaelSabbag at 2008-2-17
Hi, How can I get the list of all the changesets that linked to a specific work item with the API? Thanks, Michael.

MS Project intagration problems

458 byte By VitaliyVoloshchuk at 2008-2-16
MS Project/TeamSystemGantt Bugs? 1.When deleting item it may stay not deleted 2.When close/show diagramm it contains some main parent items only(collapse,expand to see all items) 3.When project summary task is not used, but one custom summary task is used. And move level2 item to upper level ...

Work Item object model - problem with editing new reference field

775 byte By shmulik_segal at 2008-2-15
Hi, I'm using the sample from the SDK about WI object model. The thing is that I customized my work item to have some new fields, for example I added value caled - Category ,The reference path is MyCompany.MyProcess.Category When i'm trying to set values on my workitem i get error on the ...

Each rows in different color in VSTS can this be done?

420 byte By Vlince at 2008-2-15
I'm just curious, in addition to sorting columns, can we make each rows in a different color ? When viewing the All Bugs list, wouldn't it be nice to quickly identify the P0/S0 bugs from the entire list with the row being in a different color and have some sort of legend ? Food for thoughts! ...

Work Item State Transition integration with Builder

525 byte By Yuhang at 2008-2-15
Two fields are related to Work Item/Builder integration. 1: FoundIn 2:IntegrationBuild The usage scenario for the "FoundIn" filed is: If a build fails, a new bug work item is created because bug work item type has a "foundin" filed and "Build Failure" is a ...

System.Description Storage

164 byte By StanislavOgryzkov at 2008-2-15
<span>How can I retrieve data from <em>System.Description</em> fields of my <em>TFSWarehouse</em> database? Or where can I find the data? Thanks in advance.</span>

Re-Pointing Microsoft Project plan at TFS

611 byte By dzimmy at 2008-2-15
Is there a way to repoint a project plan to a TFS project once it has been connected to it and saved? I'm getting a "Could Not Connect To Project: <My Project Name>" error when opening the plan. Naturally I'm unable to publish or refresh after that (error TF80071). It does not give me ...

Making work items forms read-only for a particular state.

1041 byte By PatrickR at 2008-2-14
Hi, Does anyone know the simplest way to make work items read-only? Let's take the bug work item for example. Suppose it has the following states: proposed, approved, ready for incorporation and incorporation complete. When the state moves to "read for incorporation", the bug form ...

WorkItemStore null reference

1572 byte By FiLCoN at 2008-2-14
Hi, i checked this forum and other sources, but couldnt find any solution for my problem. I have web service and asp.net 2.0 web to access TFS work item store, so my customers can add issues directly to the TFS. It works fine except one small issue . protected void Application_Start(Object ...

Customize the history tab to give more information about the WI

183 byte By shmulik_segal at 2008-2-13
Hi, There's a way to customize the History tab which included inside of the work item to show more information about the WI ? Thanks in advance, Shmulik.

How can I change the Field Type in WI?

376 byte By tomml at 2008-2-13
Is there a way to retain the original data and still be able to change the WI field type? We want to change from field type HTML to PlainText for reporting. I try to change and import to WI but get this message "Error importing work item type definition: TF26038: Field type for wb.xxxx does not...

Work Item Classification and Project Hierarchy

604 byte By NikoVrdoljak at 2008-2-13
I played a little with Work Item customisation and I think it is very usefull feature. And classifying work item with iteration and area is very good, but what if I have need to classify work item with some other thing as sector in my organization chart (treepath) or external stakeholders also ...

How do I specify dependancies (and import to Project)

721 byte By RayJohnson at 2008-2-12
Team System has a notion of "Links" to other bugs. However, there is nothing that tells what type of link it is (that I have yet to figure out anyway). How do I specify that a bug depends on another bug? More importantly, I want that information to be passed up to Microsoft Project ...

Remove Work Items from template

465 byte By TimMulholland at 2008-2-11
When i create a new project based on the Agile process template, i get a list of about 15 work items. I don't want these work items in the project every time i load them. I don't consider them part of the project itself. Since you can't delete them once they are created (i know/understand ...

What is an area?

219 byte By LuisEstebanValenciaMCPWeb at 2008-2-10
I was just testing team explorer and all the menus, and I see an option where you can add Areas and Iterations, could somebody give me a brief explanation of areas in sofwware development in cmmi? Thanks

How can I restrict permissions to change state to Closed?

633 byte By Dave_Novak at 2008-2-10
How can I restrict permissions on work items so that only certain people have the right to close them? Better yet, how can I further filter this restriction to limit this right based upon the type of work item? Here are two examples: I would like to add a restriction that only members of the ...

Commas in resource names

693 byte By WesleyEvans at 2008-2-8
I have encountered a problem when importing TFS work items into MS Project. On my domain, all users' names in Active Directory are in the format, "Last, First M." When this name gets imported into MS Project from TFS, it imports it as 2 separate resources, "Last" and ...

Documentation for WIT types

194 byte By RayJohnson at 2008-2-8
I'm trying to customize our BUG work item item. Is there any reference documentation on the available "types" that can be used for new fields we might want to add? ray

Full list of Work Item Field names

221 byte By Gravy at 2008-2-7
Hi, is there a full list of Work Item field names available yet? I want to add a Customer field to a work item but I'm thinking this is quite common and my already be defined somewhere? Thanks for your help Graham

Set permission to some specific group to create new WI

227 byte By shmulik_segal at 2008-2-7
Hi, <font size=2>There is a way to give permission to some specific group to open WI - permission for only opening the bug?</font> <font size=2>Thanks in advance,</font> <font size=2>Shmulik.</font>

WI permission

526 byte By shmulik_segal at 2008-2-7
Hi, There is a way to give some different permission on some different WI. I mean, under one Team Project give some different permissions on different WI types. Thanks in advance, Shmulik ...

Why Cant I enter start date and finish date on tasks work items?

130 byte By LuisEstebanValenciaMCPWeb at 2008-2-7
Those fields are disabled by default, and I would like to make some reports if I finish for example a task after the finish time.

How can 2 dev teams work on the same projects.

290 byte By RonenTidhar at 2008-2-6
<span> Hi, I have 2 development teams that working on the same project. Each team has its own projects. I want both teams to see and get last version of all projects (their and other), but can change only their projects. 10x a lot TD </span>

Web Client for WIT

183 byte By AndersEdstr?m at 2008-2-6
Hi! Do anyone know about any 3rd party web client to WIT? Or do VSTS contain anything in this area? Something similar to Outlooks Web Client... Rgds, /AnE

Welcome!

1421 byte By RobCaronMSFT at 2008-2-5
Welcome to the Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking Forum! Use this forum to discuss topics related to Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, which includes: Work Item Types Work Item Customization Work Item Queries Office Integration Workflow etc. For more information, see:- ...

Question about events service

1060 byte By DrewMarsh at 2008-2-5
So, I'm just poking around trying to get an understanding of the eventing service and came across this post that mentioned how to find out what all the diff. events are that you can subscribe to. Basically they mention that you can look in TfsIntegration.dbo.tbl_event_type to find all the ...

Is there such a thing as a 'wilcard' or 'any' state I can use fo

630 byte By DumbBlond at 2008-2-5
I want to be able to allow any task in TS to have a state of 'blocked' regardless of it's previous state. I don't really want to amend the <transitions> part of the xml template to have to include a section for every single state to the blocked state. I've tried: <TRANSITIO...

Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2003

207 byte By Barham at 2008-2-4
Whenever I publish enterprise projects from project professional 2003 to Project server 2003 the task appear scrambled when viewed in the Project center using Project Web Access. Why is this?

Connecting to work items with project

391 byte By IngramBarclay at 2008-2-4
I have been un successful with either b3 or the refresh in getting project to connect to the work items database. Every time I try it comes back immediately saying there was a problem accessing it. I see my work items in the 'all work items' query in VS.. Is this possibly a config issue? FYI ...

TFS RC: Error loading Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.EventFilter ...

3439 byte By D.OmarVillarreal at 2008-2-4
Even though the installation was successful, I am getting the following error four times in a row, every hour: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.EventFilter' or one of its dependencies Is this a serious problem? Should I be able to fix it or is ...

How do I delete a task?

154 byte By BillyM2005 at 2008-2-4
In going through the walkthrough, I accidently created a duplicate of a task. Is there some way to delete it? ("Delete" doesn't seem to work.)

Search for workitems across projects that have certain area in common

611 byte By guest at 2008-2-3
In my company we are working on one application. This product can be divided in different modules which can be divided in different submodules. We use 'area' for this in work-items.We define projects for major changes in the application, instead of having only one project for all development...

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