{"id":8921,"date":"2007-08-01T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2007\/08\/01\/team-system-web-access-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:33:13","slug":"team-system-web-access-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-system-web-access-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Team System Web Access Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots.&nbsp; It seemed like a good idea, so here you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>VSTS Web Access is a Web UI to a portion of the Team Foundation Server functionality.&nbsp; Over time I expect it to grow beyond what we think of as TFS today.&nbsp; It serves a few purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s great for people who don&#8217;t use Visual Studio and\/or don&#8217;t want to install the Team Explorer.&nbsp; Examples include Project managers, Business Analysts, IT Executives, Customers, etc.<\/li>\n<li>It allows access to TFS from any machine.&nbsp; You can use it from&nbsp;test machines, customer machines, etc. when you don&#8217;t have access to a machine with Team Explorer installed.<\/li>\n<li>You can paste links to it in docs, emails etc. when sending information to people who don&#8217;t use TFS.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s quick and easy to get into.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VSTS Web Access is not intended to be a complete solution to the needs of all people on the development team.&nbsp; For instance, it is particularly not intended to be a replacement for the source code control functionality that a developer would need.&nbsp; It also doesn&#8217;t have all of the version management support that a configuration&nbsp;or build manager would need.&nbsp; And, of course, it doesn&#8217;t replace any of the functionality that a developer, DBA or tester, etc would need in working with code, architecture and tests.<\/p>\n<p>It is good an many things though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing bugs and tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Browsing builds and drops.<\/li>\n<li>Lightweight browsing of source code and documents.<\/li>\n<li>Basic review of checkins, history, diffs.<\/li>\n<li>Launching point into the Sharepoint portal and Reporting Services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main screen.&nbsp; It&#8217;s intended to be an overview of your work with tabs for various pieces of functionality across the top and navigation down the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B8%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B4%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Work Item Tracking<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it looks like when you run a query for work items&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B11%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B5%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you build a query for work items&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B14%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B6%5D.png\" width=\"598\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a work item being viewed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B17%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B7%5D.png\" width=\"605\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Builds<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of builds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B20%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B8%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a report on an individual build&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B23%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B9%5D.png\" width=\"527\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Version Control<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the equivalent of the Source Control Explorer for browsing source code and docs in TFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B32%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B12%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s History for reviewing checkins that have been made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B35%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B13%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You can also search for checkins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B38%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B14%5D.png\" width=\"522\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And you can drill in to individual change sets and view the file differences&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B41%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B15%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Sharepoint and Reporting Services<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the screen shots for launching into Sharepoint and viewing a report&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B26%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B10%5D.png\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D%5B29%5D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/image%7B0%7D_thumb%5B11%5D.png\" width=\"575\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots.&nbsp; 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