Recovered: VSTF

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

So now all the teams want their VSTF tasks and bugs reported in SharePoint.  And, while we'll be moving to MOSS 2007, we still need to work in SPS 2003 until we can make the move.

Our VSTF is running SQL2005 so it's got the sweet reporting services built in.  There's a canned set of reports but we'll need to tweak them for filters and such.

I can find a work item in VSTF by going to http://web.archive.org/web/20070317034000/http://myvstfserver/Reports and drilling down into my project eventually arriving at:

 http://web.archive.org/web/20070317034000/http://vstf:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx?artifactMoniker=wxyz

Where "wxyz" is your work item number and I guess your report server could be running on another port.

So, drop that URL in a page viewer and there you have your work item on your team site, complete with related work items that will open up in a new window.

Also, I've been able to create a custom report and load it into the VSTF report inventrory.  I'll have to think to retrace my steps.

I went to my VSTF Reports home site which is http://web.archive.org/web/20070317034000/http://myvstfserver/Reports.  From there I ran the Report Builder.  This is a pretty frustrating little guy that insinuates that you can build sophisticated queries interactively but really, he's pretty shallow.  On the other hand, when you go to save him, he falls right into the report directory which is pretty cool.

-robot

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