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Reporting in TFS

Reporting in TFS

By : Dipti Chhatrapati
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Reporting in TFS

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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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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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Summary
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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
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Index

Prerequisites to access Excel reports

In this section, we will discuss the configurations required for TFS in order to execute and view Excel reports.

Installing SharePoint Server Enterprise Edition

To enable Excel reports, the team project needs to be configured with the SharePoint site created using the SharePoint Server Enterprise edition. TFS facilitates the use of dashboards, such as Burndown, Quality, Bug, Test, and Build, that display the team project's reporting data via different types of Excel reports. This helps find relevant information about the team project's progress easily. We will talk about the Excel reports used in each of the dashboards later.

You can see all the available dashboards on the SharePoint site, as follows:

The following are the dashboards that you will see in the Dashboards section:

  • Burndown Dashboard: Also known as the Progress Dashboard, this contains Excel reports that are used to track the team project's progress with respect to completing the iteration

  • Quality...

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