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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

Adding fields to the add panels


When you are adding lots of work items to a backlog, it is convenient to use the quick add panel; however, what if you need to fill in fields that do not show in the quick add panel? This will make the process of adding work items slower and we are here to make our users more productive.

We are going to add the Stream of Work and Product Code fields to the quick add panel for the convenience of our users. Open the ProcessConfiguration.xml file located at C:\ProcessTemplates\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013\WorkItem Tracking\Process. Now, find the Backlog items and then the PortfolioBacklog node. You will see that under the columns node that we worked with earlier, there is an AddPanel node. This node contains a FIELDS node that has a FIELD node for each of the fields that are to be shown in the quick add panel. Add the following code under the FIELD node for Title:

<Field refname="MyCompany.ProductCode" />
<Field refname="MyCompany.StreamOfWork" ...