Customizing Process Templates

re: Customizing Process Templates

Matt Milner — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:54:00 GMT

you asked for questions. I'd like to know where I can get a schema for these files so that I know what options I have for modifying the process templates.

re: Customizing Process Templates

mARCEL zUMSTEIN — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:43:00 GMT

Can I customize my projects only *before* I start them? Let's say, I have an existing project with data, and I realize that the fields of the work items don't fit my needs. Am I stuck with them or is there a way to change them?

re: Customizing Process Templates

NicolaCanalini — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:00 GMT

It seems to me a great idea to look at the process as if it was something in continous evolution. In my company effectively it is. I can say that we' re refactoring the process day by day. So the question is what happen if ...

1) I apply the template01 to project01
2) I learn from project01 and I find a new idea for a new template let's call it Template02
3) I apply template02 to project02
4) six month later ... ops ... my boss ask me to work on project01 evolutions

do I have to use Template01 ?

best regards
Nicola

re: Customizing Process Templates

Zohar — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:20:00 GMT

Hi Amy,

What does Multiple check-out refer to?

re: Customizing Process Templates

Mickey Gousset — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:19:00 GMT

Great Post! I've been starting to investigate more on the Team Foundation side, and I noticed that the MSF Agile process creates a lot of work items and such for you. I tried exporting the MSF Agile process, but was not sure what I was looking at. This post gives me what I need to delve into it more deeply and start playing more. Thanks!

re: Customizing Process Templates

Mickey Gousset — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:30:00 GMT

Question: If you open the XML file up using VS2005, we wouldn't be lucky enough to get Intellisense to help us with the editing, would we? Where do we look for more resources on how to edit a process model (such as all the possible elements and attributes, etc...)?

re: Customizing Process Templates

Amy Hagstrom — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:08:00 GMT

The xsd's are part of the Team Foundation Extensibility Kit; the December CTP version can be downloaded from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/4/6/5466ad0d-dd6d-4b2e-9402-63352bda1798/VSTF 1204 CTP Extensibility Kit.msi

re: Customizing Process Templates - customizing post project creation

Amy Hagstrom — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:06:00 GMT

Process templates are basically a getting started blueprint for the project; you can definitely customize a team project after project creation. See my 3/3 Project Customization Overview post for more information on what can be customized once a project is created. Ling will soon be posting specifically on how to modify work item types and fields once a project is created.

re: Customizing Process Templates - continuous evolution

Amy Hagstrom — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:23:00 GMT

Hi Nicola,

At least for VSTF v1, you won't be able to apply a new process template to an existing project (a desirable feature, no doubt). However you can go back to your Project1 and more manually do some or the customizations you made with Template02. For example, if you added a new field called "owner" to one of your WI types in Template02, you can go back to project1 and add that same field with a witimport.exe utility that Ling will soon be posting about. Or if you changed the process guidance in Template02, you can go edit the processguidance pages on project1 to match.

-Amy

re: Customizing Process Templates - multiple checkout

Amy Hagstrom — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:41:00 GMT

Hi Zohar,

In the VSTF version control system, this is a setting that specifies whether the same files can be checked out by multiple users at the same time (and changes later merged on check in) or if any given file can only be checked out exclusively by a single user.

-Amy

re: Customizing Process Templates - intellisense

Amy Hagstrom — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:24:00 GMT

Mickey,

I can't promise anything just yet, but we're looking into getting intellisense working (within VS) for the xml files.

-Amy

re: Customizing Process Templates

Keith Hill — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:32:00 GMT

Mickey if you grab the XSD from the extensibility kit and drop it into:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml

then just make sure your xml file declares a namespace (probably the default) to the targetNamespace specified in the XSD. After that, VS should provide intellisense support for editing the XML file.

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