View progress on the team dashboard (home page)

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Teams can view the progress of work from the team home page. Team administrators can add or pin items to this dashboard and re-sequence tiles. Each tile provides team members quick access to the progress of builds, status of work items, or version control paths defined in Team Foundation Server (TFS).

If you need to add a team first, go here.

Visual Studio Online (hosted) and with TFS 2013 Update 2

On the hosted service, or with the upgrade to TFS 2013 Update 2, you can view pinned items on the home page, including flat-list query charts.

To download the upgrade, go here.

Team Foundation Server (on-premises)

For on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) deployments, you’ll see tiles arranged under Team favorites. These can, for example, include recent changes made to the source control folder named Invoicing; the status of the build named Northwind CI; and status of work from the work item queries, such as Product Backlog, Active Bugs, and Resolved Bugs.

To pin items to the team dashboard (hosted service and TFS Update 2)

You pin an item to the team dashboard from the code, work, and build pages.

1. If you aren’t a team administrator, get added as one.

2. Pin a work item query from its context menu.

   

   To add a source control folder or a build definition, open the corresponding page and access the pin feature in the same way.

   To pin a chart, go to the query’s Charts page and pin it to the home page.

   

3. Drag tiles to reorder their sequence on the dashboard.

   Using Internet Explorer 10 or Internet Explorer 11, you can also tab to a tile and press Shift+L or Shift+R to move the selected tile to the left or to the right.

4. Choose a tile to open it.

To add a tile to the team dashboard (on-premises)

By specifying an item as a Team Favorite from the code, work, and build pages, you add a corresponding tile to the team dashboard.

1. If you aren’t a team administrator, get added as one.

2. To add a work item query to the home page, open the work items page.

3. Drag a selected shared query to team favorites. Or, use the context menu.

   

   To add a source control folder or a build definition, open the corresponding page and drag the selected object to team favorites.

4. On the home page, drag tiles to reorder their sequence on the home page.

   Using Internet Explorer 10 or Internet Explorer 11 you can also tab to a tile and press Shift+L or Shift+R to move the selected tile to the left or to the right.

5. Choose a tile to open it.

Q & A

Q: How do I remove a pinned or favorite item from the home page?

A: Go to the Queries page. Either choose the context menu for the query that you want to remove and select Unpin from the home page, or drag it from the Team favorites section. You have to be a team administrator or belong to the Project Administrators group to perform these steps.

Q: How do I add team members or team administrators?

A: To add team members, go here. To add an account as a team administrator, go here.

Q: How do I create a team home page?

A: You don’t have to do any work to add a home page. A team home page is created when you add a team. You access it through the following URL: https://ServerName:8080/tfs/CollectionName/TeamProjectName/TeamName.

Q: How do I create a work item query?

A: See Query for work items.

Q: How do I define builds?

A: See Create a build definition.

Q: How do I set team alerts?

A: See Set team alerts.