TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

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TFS 2010 Beta 1: Don’t run initial configuration from the administration console (MMC)

Buck Hodges — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:20:07 GMT

Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

Christoph — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:38:23 GMT

Assumed that a migrate from tfs 2008 to tfs 2010 what happend with my customized workitemstypes? Can i use automatically for example the new feature workitem hiearchy or must i create a completely new workitemtype?

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:45:14 GMT

We'll get out some detailed information on the migration process in the not too distant future. That said, your old process will continue to work as expected. You can take advantage of some of the new features - like usability improvements, etc. Many of the others, custom link types, etc. will require that you update your work item types to take advantage of them (but you won't have to completely redo them).

Brian

VSTS Links - 05/19/2009

Team System News — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Ravi Maniam on Love @ First Sight, The Visual Studio Team System Test 2010 The VSTS Lab Management Team

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

Sergio — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:58:36 GMT

Great job!

But still missing THE CONTROL: A COMPLETE richedit workitem control to allow me to paste documents, images, etc... inline with the text (like in Outlook tasks)

Will it be possible to add it sometime??? Please consider...

Thanks,

Sergio

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

Yogesh — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:03:27 GMT

Brian,

TFS2010 looks fantastic. Your blogs are the best and very informative.

Regarding your above post, I did see any mention of multiple assignments i.e. assign a task to multiple resource. This is something Project supports but TFS did not. It is a bit like hierarchy I guess where instead of assigning one broad task to two resources you split the task in two with separate details. But I still want to know if multiple assignments is supported and if not how does TFS WITs integrate with Project schedules with muliple resource assignments.

Thank you once again for detailed blog posts.

Regards

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:55:47 GMT

We did not add multiple assignment support to TFS. We have generally told people to break them into multiple tasks in that scenario. I remember a plan for us to do that automatically in the round tripping but I can't remember where we landed on that. Let me look into it and get back to you.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:26:45 GMT

Sergio,

Yes, I too very much want that. It's not going to make this release unfortunately but it has not fallen between the cracks - it's still on our backlog to tackle.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

Sergio — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:48:03 GMT

Brian,

Great! Even if it's not going to be ready for this release I'm very happy to know that at least it's on your todo list...

I've some ideas for that maybe to add to your specs (or future specs) based on my experience and our development process. If you could be interested on that, please feel free to contact me (I will be glad to help)

Regards,

Sergio

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

rohitlives — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:47:25 GMT

Brian,

VSTS/TFS 2010 has some great features and looks great too.

Can I give access restrictions on individual work items records? e.g work item # 123 can be viewed only by a certain user(s) or group(s).

Currently I am using Area Paths to give access to work item records. But I guess this field is not designed to for creating Access Control Lists.

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

P.Kay — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:25:07 GMT

I've read the new concept about the custom link. I would like to ask about the old custom Link in 2008 which you've describe in the link below. Will it be compatible with this version?

Or there will be a new concept for supporting this?

http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/10/13/how-to-extend-linking-and-workitem-ui-with-custom-link-types.aspx

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:43:47 GMT

rohitlives,

I'm afraid not. We didn't make any significant changes to the work item permissioning model for this version.

Brian

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bharry — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:46:44 GMT

P. Kay,

Good question. They are different approaches to link extensibility. Down the road I hope to integrate them more. The link extensibility in that post describes a way to create custom browse UI for links to different types of artifacts.

The link extensibility I talk about in TFS 2010 is all about further qualifying work item to work item links.

Both are supported in TFS 2010.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

rohitlives — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:26:54 GMT

Brian,

Where can I find more information on work item link topologies.

Thanks

Rohit

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:15 GMT

Here you go: http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2009/06/05/customizing-work-item-link-types-in-tfs-2010.aspx

Brian

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

Jeffrey — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:18:27 GMT

Hi, Brian,

Nice post about the new improvements of work item tracking in TFS 2010 Beta1.

Are there any details on the OM work item tracking? e.g. is the new OM compatible with TFS 2005/2008? Are the query builder control exposed in OM for third party use?

Thanks, Jeffrey

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:15:37 GMT

The 2005/2008 OM will work. There will be an update to it make it work better. There are some new features that won't be available from the old OM (hierarchy, typed links, etc). The OM has been updated for TFS 2010 to support these features. It's an incremental update, not major changes.

No, I'm afraid the QueryBuilder control has not been make public.

Brian

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Jirawat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:55:50 GMT

Brian,

Will TFS2008'custom control be compatible with TFS 2010(From VS and Web access)?

Thanks

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

P.Kay — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:31:53 GMT

Hi Brian,

From you answer

"P. Kay,

The link extensibility I talk about in TFS 2010 is all about further qualifying work item to work item links.

Both are supported in TFS 2010.

Brian"

Do you mean TFS 2010, should also support the custom link with UI customization too? Could you please point me to the details information link?

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:30:53 GMT

Yes, in 2010, both are supported but they are separate mechanisms. We never really published much info on the custom browse UI extensibility because it wasn't really a "supported" feature. Naren's blog post is, I think, the only documentation available on it. There will be much more documentation available on the new custom link type feature in 2010. This post has some good info in it: http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2009/06/05/customizing-work-item-link-types-in-tfs-2010.aspx. The product documentation will have more as we get closer to release.

Brian

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:31:58 GMT

Jirawat, the code will be compatible but they will need to be recompiled.

Brian

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Keith Hill — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:02:23 GMT

Lots of good stuff here. Any chance we will get parameterized queries in 2010? For example, say I want to create a report of outstanding bugs for an individual. However I don't want to specify the individual until the query executes. At that point, it should prompt me with a UI that presents the list of "assigned to" folks for that project.

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:04:48 GMT

Unfortunately, no. That didn't make it in this release.

Brian

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alex.by — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:50:54 GMT

Hi, Brian.

Will WIT's fields support customization of their visibility in the dependency of role of current user? It may be be useful when some fields (such as cost) should not be visible for some users.

re: TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

bharry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:00:38 GMT

No, I'm afraid not in 2010.

Brian