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FAQ: I work in multiple projects … how can I see what I need to do at a glance?

  • Artigo

In one of our Visual Studio ALM Ranger Team Project Collections we currently have 20+ active Team Projects and often ALM Rangers are assigned tasks in multiple solutions.

Common Question 1 - How can I possibly keep track of everything I need to do?

  1. Connect to your Team Project Collection and favourite Team Project, whereby I am using the Web Client against our Team Foundation Service environment: 
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  2. Select “View Work Items”
  3. Create a personal query, example “All My WIs (Incomplete Tasks)”, as shown.
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  4. Voila, now you have a view across the team project collection Smile
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Common Question 2 – How can I do the same, but for my team?

  1. Connect to your Team Project Collection and favourite Team Project, whereby I am using our Team Foundation Service environment:
  2. Select “View Work Items”
  3. Create a shared query, example “All My WIs (TODO)”, as shown:
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  4. Voila, now your team has the same query.
  5. [Optionally]Add to team favourites
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  6. Now, when you go back to the home page of your favourite project, you always see how much work you have across all projects: 
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SIMPLE! Smile I love this environment!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2012
    So can I query across team projects now in Excel in Dev11? If so...amazing!!! Can you share the way it works for excel based queries when you update?

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2012
    Not sure where Excel came up, but the feature I am using above works in both Visual Studio and the Web Client. The screen shots are from the latter. Opening such a query in Excel has and is failing with the error: "TF208015: You are trying to add work items that are not in the selected team project for this Microsoft Excel file". So, to cut a long story the answer is "no".

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2012
    Very nice

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2012
    There is another way to see related project queries, and even get them into Excel: it is  a little bit cumbersome, but it works… open the query in a web-browser --> export to email or to report --> save to HTML -->open in excel, e voila there you go.