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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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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
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Index

Understanding default SQL reports

Default reports are very useful for analyzing the progress and quality of a project throughout its application lifecycle. These reports display the information from work items, test results, version control, and builds. Default reports are basically RDL files that contain information about reporting layout and data source. RDS files do not contain actual reporting data, but they combine reporting data and layout during the reporting process and pass it to the report renderer.

If a team member has the required permission to view SQL reports, the Team Explorer in Visual Studio will appear with the default reports, as displayed in the following screenshot:

Understanding default SQL reports

The reports page on Team Explorer shows the different reports under a set of folders in line with the process template. Here, we are referring to the Agile Process template and, hence, the report page shows only Agile SQL reports.

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If SQL reports don't appear as expected, review the checklist as mentioned...

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