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Friday, December 02, 2005

Customising the Team Project Portal by Peter

I have my Team Builds being published to a Sharepoint List and this works very well, but by default it's hard for the users to find the list. The default template for the project portal does not have a spare zone for me to drop the list into; instead, users have to navigate through the "Documents & Lists" page.

Thankfully, customising the project portal page is VERY easy thanks to the integration with Frontpage 2003. When you have this installed, you get an Edit option in IE. Clicking this will launch the site in Frontpage and you can add a Web Part Zone very easily.

I added a new zone to the top of the home page and them dropped my list in there, along with some instructions for users. Here's what it looks like:

Next? Well now it gets harder. It'd like to :

Display a list of Work Items for the project and let users drill down to the details.
Let user create new work items.
Display a project summary WITHOUT using the icky reporting UI. This will probably include remaining work, velocity and issues in a composite report.

To do the above I need to delve into the TFS API and learn how to create Web Parts so this may take a while. Or not... we'll see.

Friday, December 02, 2005 8:56:02 AM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)

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