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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By : Gordon Beeming
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

By: Gordon Beeming

Overview of this book

<p>Team Foundation Server offers you the benefit of having all your data in one system with all tools tightly integrated with each other, making it easier for teams to work together. Knowing how to customize the Team Foundation Server is very useful as well as powerful. Having the knowledge and applying it to TFS can save users many hours as well as make it easier to understand the data in TFS for reporting purposes.</p> <p>This book will show you how to customize various TFS features in order to create an enhanced experience for your users and improve their productivity. You will create custom controls that will be used in client applications and inside the web access. Next, you will learn how to embed a web page inside your work items to display rich information linked to the work items you are opening.</p> <p>This book will show you how to modify a team’s process template, and then slowly get to grips with some C# code and create a scheduled job.</p> <p>Using this book, you will create a JavaScript web access plugin that greatly increases productivity. You will start off by making various modifications to the process template to illustrate how we can cater to custom data requirements, and then we will move towards writing code to perform more complex customizations.</p> <p>Customizing Team Foundation Server 2013 is one of the best methods you can use to provide rich data for reporting in TFS.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing TFS dashboard tiles


Having a customized dashboard in TFS is one of the biggest and easiest ways to show what is going on with a team's progress. Today, we will go over some of the things you can add to the dashboard of TFS.

Adding a tile to the dashboard

Surfacing query results as tiles on the dashboard can highlight very specific pieces of information within a team. In this section, we are going to add a query for the team's current backlog to the dashboard:

  1. Open the TFS Web Access interface.

  2. From the home page of a team, click on View backlog.

  3. To create the backlog query, click on Create query, give the query the name Backlog items, and change the folder name to Shared Queries.

  4. Click on OK.

    Create a backlog query dialog

Note

The preceding steps will then create a query that will match what is shown on your team's backlog at the given point of time; if you alter the area paths or any other variable that will alter what displays on the team's backlog, you will need to update this query...