Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

March 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:31 PM

Work Item rules workaround: Saving the resolved reason

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type . Another question along these lines: “How can I save the resolved reason? I want to create metrics based on how bugs were resolved, but the value of the ‘Reason’ field is
Posted by sunder | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:44 PM

Work Item Rules Workarounds: Secure creation of a work item type

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Deactivating a work item type . Here’s another popular request: “Secure creation of a work item type”. For example, people say: “Only my Testers can create bugs” “Only my Business Analysts can create
Posted by Gregg Boer | 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:14 PM

Work Item rules workaround: Deactivating a work item type

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about forcing selection of reason . Let’s take a look at another question that we often get: “How do I deactivate/retire a work item type? I don’t want to destroy the type because I want to report on it,
Posted by sunder | 1 Comments
Friday, March 20, 2009 11:56 PM

TFS Warehouse Work Item Tracking Compensating Records

Compensating Records What are compensating records? First a little background. Whenever a work item is updated a new revision is created. These revisions are moved over to the Warehouse and stored in the various Work Item Dimension and Fact tables. Each
Posted by nericson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:11 PM

Work Item Rules Workarounds: Force selection of Reason

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Closing down an iteration . Let’s take a look at another question: “ How do I force people to select a reason? ” We’ve had people come to us with the request to force their users to select a reason.
Posted by Gregg Boer | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:06 PM

Work Item rules workaround: Closing down an iteration

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about validating area path . Let’s take a look at another question: “ How do I close an iteration so that no one can log new items against it? ” For this example, let’s say we have completed Iteration 0 and
Posted by sunder | 15 Comments
 
Page view tracker