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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

Changing the default columns for portfolio boards


Sometimes, it's useful to change the default columns of the portfolio boards. This is especially useful when you are customizing your process template and adding new fields that you wish to display on the portfolio backlog list. These changes will affect all users.

Open the ProcessConfiguration.xml file located at C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\Process. Find the Backlog items and then the PortfolioBacklog node. You can see that there are six columns that show for this portfolio by default, and if you navigate to Web Access to the features portfolio backlog, these columns are currently displayed.

You are able to reorder these column nodes, or add new ones for any column you would like to display. For this sample, we are going to add the Stream of Work and Product Code fields that we added to the Product Backlog Item button in the previous chapter, and also remove the System.WorkItemType field from the...