{"id":12115,"date":"2016-08-18T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:46:13","slug":"new-navigation-for-team-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/new-navigation-for-team-services\/","title":{"rendered":"New navigation for Team Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2016\/08\/08\/tfs-15-rc1-is-available\/\">blog post announcing TFS 15 RC1<\/a>, I mentioned that we are working on a new navigation UI.\u00a0 In a somewhat unusual turn of events, it showed up in an on premises preview before it showed up in the cloud.\u00a0 Today we enabled the new navigation experience in Team Services, making it really easy for anyone to give it a try.\nThis new experience is VERY much a work in progress.\u00a0 We know lots of issues remain and are working on them but it&#8217;s time for us to start getting some meaningful feedback outside our own 4 walls.\nTo minimize disruption, we&#8217;ve disabled it by default for every Team Services user.\u00a0 You must take explicit action to enable it.\u00a0 Each Team Services user can enable it or disable it for themselves.\u00a0 Let me show you how&#8230;\nLet&#8217;s start with what the nav looks like today.\u00a0 Ignore the &#8220;Compliance&#8221; hub group &#8211; that&#8217;s an internal extension we use.<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Home.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12125\" alt=\"Home\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Home-1024x551.png\" \/><\/a>\nYou turn on the new navigation with a menu item on your user menu &#8220;Turn on new navigation&#8221;.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Enable.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12116\" alt=\"Enable\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Enable.png\" \/><\/a>\nAlternatively, the account administrator can enable it or disable it for the whole account using the account settings.\u00a0 Ultimately the user&#8217;s personal setting, once it&#8217;s been explicitly set,\u00a0overrides the account setting.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Account.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12185\" alt=\"Account\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Account.png\" \/><\/a>\nOnce you&#8217;ve turned it on, the same Home screen I showed above looks like this&#8230;\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/NewHome2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12155\" alt=\"NewHome\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/NewHome2-1024x394.png\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/\"><\/a>\nVirtually every element of the nav has changed in some form.\u00a0 Some of the big things include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lines of title\/nav have been reduced from 3 to 2, giving back more vertical real estate to content.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve added menus to the top level hub groups to allow you to navigate directly to the hub you want rather than first going to the default hub and then the hub you want.\u00a0 We think this makes navigation more efficient.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\">We\u2019ve combined Build &amp; Release into a single hub group because there\u2019s so much overlap between them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also changed the top left navigation, simplifying it and giving easy access to things like &#8220;New Team Project&#8221; and &#8220;Account Settings&#8221;&#8230;\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Project.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"518\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12165\" alt=\"Project\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Project.png\" \/><\/a>\nWe&#8217;ve also begun a major overhaul of the &#8220;Settings&#8221; experience &#8211; eliminating the parallel navigation universe of settings and merging them into the main navigation experience.\u00a0 This, we think, will help people not get &#8220;lost&#8221; in the settings experience.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Settings1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12175\" alt=\"Settings\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/Settings1-1024x345.png\" \/><\/a>\nWe hope you like the changes and we value any feedback or suggestions you have.\u00a0 Please use our send a smile feature (upper right), my blog, UserVoice, etc. to give feedback and make suggestions.\u00a0 One very important thing is that we&#8217;ve instrumented Team Services so we know when someone enables or disables the new navigation.\u00a0 In fact, if you disable it, the product will ask you why.\u00a0 I strongly encourage you to vote with your feet.\u00a0 If you like the new nav, use it.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t, go back to the old one.\u00a0 One of the main success metrics we plan to use is the number of people who enable the new nav and leave it on.\u00a0 Anyone turning it off is a vote against the change.\u00a0 Once we feel good that the vast majority of people prefer the new nav, we&#8217;ll make it the default.\u00a0 At some point, down the road, we&#8217;ll remove the old navigation.\u00a0 By giving you control, we hope to minimize the disruption of this pretty substantial change for you.\nReally looking forward to your feedback.\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my blog post announcing TFS 15 RC1, I mentioned that we are working on a new navigation UI.\u00a0 In a somewhat unusual turn of events, it showed up in an on premises preview before it showed up in the cloud.\u00a0 Today we enabled the new navigation experience in Team Services, making it really easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vs-team-services"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In my blog post announcing TFS 15 RC1, I mentioned that we are working on a new navigation UI.\u00a0 In a somewhat unusual turn of events, it showed up in an on premises preview before it showed up in the cloud.\u00a0 Today we enabled the new navigation experience in Team Services, making it really easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}