Team Documents
• The Documents section is (obviously!) where all the Team project documents are stored.
- If you upload a document here, it shows up in the project portal.
- Likewise, if you upload a document to the portal, it also shows up here.
- All of the Process Guidance docs are also available here, including the home page (ProcessGuidance.
html).
• You find numerous sample Office documents Word (.doc), Project (.mpp) and Excel (.xls) documents
here to help you with your project get started.
- New folders can be created here and new documents can be uploaded here.
• As you can see in the image, Microsoft Project is not installed on this client machine (see icons next to
MPP files).
- Therefore, the Microsoft Project files cannot be opened on this machine.
- If Project is installed, MPP files are immediately available.
- If you would like to add any other types of file of reasonable size, feel free to add it.
• In this picture, for example, you can see that the Development team found it vital to add a Shockwave
Flash document to the project.
Working With TFS Reports
(Not to be confused with TPS reports! Didn’t you get the memo?)
• A canned listing of reports is available in Team Explorer.
• These reports are created and run by using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services).
- Custom reports can also be created if you have installed BIDS (SQL Server Business Intelligence
Development Studio) on your machine.
- BIDS is another plug-in for Visual Studio.
- This list of reports is based on the process template you chose when you created the Team project.
• Generating TFS Reports is important to a project manager for illustrating the progress of a given project.
- Initially, the canned reports that come along with a process template suffice in giving the project
manager useful project metrics related to project activity.
- This activity includes things such as work items and their status, Source Control activity, builds and
their successes and test results.
• A project manager can either view a report directly in Visual Studio by double-clicking it or by opening
the Report Site within a separate web browser.
- To open the Report Site, right-click the Reports folder and click “Show Reports Site…”
• Once here, you can open any of the reports shown.
- If you create your own reports, they show up in this list.
• An advantage to using the Report Site is that the reports are opened in a separate Web browser.
- This allows you to have greater control over how it is viewed within the browser and how it can be
printed.
- You can view any of the reports using alternative web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox or Opera.
• You can create your own custom reports for more meaningful results.
- Experience with SSRS will prove quite helpful for generating custom reports.
- You must be a member of the Content Managers role in SSRS to create custom reports.
• You can copy an existing TFS report or custom report and save it with a different name.
- This gives you a starting report with TFS fields already mapped to it.
• Unfortunately, creating custom reports using SSRS is beyond the scope of this class.
- There are several good books and documentation available in MSDN.
• The Documents section is (obviously!) where all the Team project documents are stored.
- If you upload a document here, it shows up in the project portal.
- Likewise, if you upload a document to the portal, it also shows up here.
- All of the Process Guidance docs are also available here, including the home page (ProcessGuidance.
html).
• You find numerous sample Office documents Word (.doc), Project (.mpp) and Excel (.xls) documents
here to help you with your project get started.
- New folders can be created here and new documents can be uploaded here.
• As you can see in the image, Microsoft Project is not installed on this client machine (see icons next to
MPP files).
- Therefore, the Microsoft Project files cannot be opened on this machine.
- If Project is installed, MPP files are immediately available.
- If you would like to add any other types of file of reasonable size, feel free to add it.
• In this picture, for example, you can see that the Development team found it vital to add a Shockwave
Flash document to the project.
Working With TFS Reports
(Not to be confused with TPS reports! Didn’t you get the memo?)
• A canned listing of reports is available in Team Explorer.
• These reports are created and run by using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services).
- Custom reports can also be created if you have installed BIDS (SQL Server Business Intelligence
Development Studio) on your machine.
- BIDS is another plug-in for Visual Studio.
- This list of reports is based on the process template you chose when you created the Team project.
• Generating TFS Reports is important to a project manager for illustrating the progress of a given project.
- Initially, the canned reports that come along with a process template suffice in giving the project
manager useful project metrics related to project activity.
- This activity includes things such as work items and their status, Source Control activity, builds and
their successes and test results.
• A project manager can either view a report directly in Visual Studio by double-clicking it or by opening
the Report Site within a separate web browser.
- To open the Report Site, right-click the Reports folder and click “Show Reports Site…”
• Once here, you can open any of the reports shown.
- If you create your own reports, they show up in this list.
• An advantage to using the Report Site is that the reports are opened in a separate Web browser.
- This allows you to have greater control over how it is viewed within the browser and how it can be
printed.
- You can view any of the reports using alternative web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox or Opera.
• You can create your own custom reports for more meaningful results.
- Experience with SSRS will prove quite helpful for generating custom reports.
- You must be a member of the Content Managers role in SSRS to create custom reports.
• You can copy an existing TFS report or custom report and save it with a different name.
- This gives you a starting report with TFS fields already mapped to it.
• Unfortunately, creating custom reports using SSRS is beyond the scope of this class.
- There are several good books and documentation available in MSDN.
TFS Reports
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