{"id":1961,"date":"2013-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/09\/09\/team-foundation-service-update-sept-9\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:32:46","slug":"team-foundation-service-update-sept-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-foundation-service-update-sept-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service Update \u2013 Sept 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we deployed our sprint 53 work to Team Foundation Service and posted the release notes<\/a> about the changes.\u00a0 When I wrote last sprint\u2019s release notes<\/a>, I alluded to \u201cone more nice big new feature\u201d.\u00a0 While \u201cbig\u201d is in the eye of the beholder, I forgot there are actually 2 \u201cbig\u201d new features.<\/p>\n

Work Item Charting<\/h3>\n

The one I was referring to last sprint was \u201cwork item charting\u201d.\u00a0 Reporting has always been a cornerstone of TFS.\u00a0 It enables transparency in the development process.\u00a0 It brings together diverse data about your team\u2019s work and allows you to mine that information for insight.\u00a0 Our current reporting implementation is very powerful but, with that comes some complexity.\u00a0 With work item charting, we are beginning to dip our toes in an experience that is designed to be incredibly simple and will ultimately enable a spectrum from very simple charting up to very powerful BI capabilities.<\/p>\n

For a variety of technical reasons, we don\u2019t support our full on premises BI stack on Team Foundation Service yet.\u00a0 However, we will support our new work item charting capability both on the service and on premises.\u00a0 And as the capability matures, we\u2019ll bring more of the full fledged reporting capabilities to the service.<\/p>\n

What you see today is just a scratch on the surface but should give you an idea for the direction.\u00a0 Things very high on our backlog include: Trend charts, pinning charts to the home page, aggregate functions, supporting more data than just work items, etc.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be evolving this area rapidly and expect to see new stuff every sprint or two.\u00a0 Also, expect to see the improvements show up in the on premises product in the 2013 Updates train.<\/p>\n

For now, to get to the charts, you need to navigate to Work \u2013> Queries \u2013> Charts and you can easily create new charts based on the query results.\u00a0 We had an intern this summer build and extension to allow you to customize the colors and I expect we\u2019ll be making that available before too long.<\/p>\n

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Test Cases Grid View<\/h3>\n

The second major feature (and the one I forgot about) is a new \u201cbulk edit\u201d grid view for test cases.\u00a0 I forgot because it\u2019s been enabled in my account for the past several sprints as the team has continued to evolve it \"Image<\/a>\u00a0 This is the next step in our commitment to keep incorporating the top customer feedback items on our testing experience.\u00a0 I won\u2019t write more here since the release notes cover it well.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n

Changing your email address<\/h3>\n

This isn\u2019t a feature but it\u2019s important none-the-less.\u00a0 Our #1 tech support issue for the past few months has been with people changing the email address associated with their Microsoft Account.\u00a0 In this scenario, you\u2019ve got a TFService account and are using it happily.\u00a0 One day, you decide to change your email address and do so on live.com.\u00a0 The next time you try to login to the service you get the error message \u201cTF400815: The identity account name \u2018youremail@yourdomain.com’<\/a> is already in use.\u201d\u00a0 This was just a case we didn\u2019t handle properly.\u00a0 In the month of July, this issue accounted for 58% of all of our support incidents.<\/p>\n

With this sprint deployment, we have added support for this scenario and, already this morning, we\u2019ve seen 5 cases of people doing this and the system just handled it automatically.\u00a0 I don\u2019t often talk about it but we try very hard to watch carefully the problems people are having and aggressively fix the issues.\u00a0 This one took a little longer than I\u2019d normally like because it came to light in the middle of our shutdown for TFS 2013 and competed for resources.\u00a0 But I\u2019m glad to have it behind us.<\/p>\n

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Delete Team Project<\/h3>\n

You can now, delete team projects from the service web UI.\u00a0 Until now, you\u2019ve had to use an awkward command line to do it.\u00a0 Starting with this sprint, you can do it from with the admin portion of the web UI.\u00a0 No, we don\u2019t yet have \u201crename team project\u201d \u2013 just heading off the inevitable question \"Image<\/a><\/p>\n

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Check out the release notes<\/a> for the other great things we added this sprint.<\/p>\n

With this release, we are done with deploying 2013 features and will be turning our attention to closing our the last few bugs and beginning work on Update 1.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some great ideas in the works and I hope you are really going to like them.\u00a0 In the mean time, we\u2019ve got a lot of important milestones coming \u2013 our 2013 release candidate, RTM, Launch, \u2026.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be an exciting fall.<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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