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Reporting in TFS

Reporting in TFS

By : Dipti Chhatrapati
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Overview of this book

This book is intended for developers, testers, architects, and project managers who want to explore and make use of the reporting facilities of Team Foundation Server 2013. Although no previous experience of reporting is required, a basic understanding of the Team Foundation Components and project templates would be a plus.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Team Foundation Server Primer
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1. Team Foundation Server Primer
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Chapter objectives
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TFS basics
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ALM and TFS 2013
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The TFS 2013 architecture
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TFS and reporting
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Summary
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2. Work Item Querying
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2. Work Item Querying
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Team project scenario
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Work item queries
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Search box queries
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Flat queries
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Direct link queries
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Tree queries
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3. Excel Reporting
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3. Excel Reporting
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Prerequisites to access Excel reports
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Creating Excel reports
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Excel Project Management reports
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Bug Backlog Management Excel reports
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Build Management Excel reports
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Test Management Excel reports
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4. SQL Server Reporting
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4. SQL Server Reporting
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SQL Server Reporting Services
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SQL Server reporting tools
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Understanding default SQL reports
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Creating custom SQL reports
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5. Team Web Access Reporting
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5. Team Web Access Reporting
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Granting an access level to a user or a group of users
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Team web access standard reports
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Index

Direct link queries

There are work items that are dependent on other work items such as tasks, bugs, and issues, and they can be tracked using direct links. They help determine risks and dependencies in order to collaborate among teams effectively.

Direct link queries help perform the following tasks:

  • Creating a custom view of linked work items
  • Tracking dependencies across team projects and manage the commitments made to other project teams
  • Assesing changes to work items that you do not own but that your work items depend on

The following steps demonstrate how to generate a linked query list:

  1. Open My Tasks List from Shared Queries.
  2. Click on Editor.
  3. Click on Work items and direct links, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Direct link queries
  4. Specify the clause for the work item type: Task in Filters for linked work items:
    Direct link queries
  5. We can filter the first level work items by choosing the following option:
    Direct link queries

    The meanings of the filter options are described as follows:

    • Only return work items that have the specified links: This option...
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