AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board
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1. AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Quick Start Al T mis reserved T e Ca m 5 V S 1 e m P r T E A NA 2010 Alle Rechte vorbehalten AN ri Copyright This documentation is provided by AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp Co KG Leitzstr 45 70469 Stuttgart Germany The content of this document is the intellectual property of the AIT AG and its involved customer respectively 2010 AIT GmbH amp Co KG AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 1 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de AR AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 2 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de A Table of Contents L System anc r E EE 4 PME Non MA n e E mm 4 3 Generaluser interlace descrip liON sonent SO unn UN Pr E AES 4 d RLON EE A ee ea re eee 5 4 1 CONECT E E EE 5 4 2 ODE cece tase tipsters tie E E E E E oateesdcueieaconseapensoeeness 6 4 3 NON e A A ee HR 6 4 4 EOU e E E E E E E E E E 6 4 5 PODI erer E EE E EEA 8 4 6 REOS NT m mI 9 4 7 SIR AEN RR m I Tr 9 4 8 PAST od 18 TO eee TE c 9 4 9 Full SC FON Mica ae oes atem US Tap pacer aie auc A paste A EE GEM eU UN NEM MINUM IU UN NIM 9 ALO LOOM Ifiononsetiee tomi dita acetic tede ci2. To Date 11 05 2010 Bs Iteration All No Filter Area Aut No Filter z Work Item Type Task State Active Closed Resolved Measurement Hours of Work Y NL 1 of 1 gt pi Ed aa WholePage Find Next EL Caption 12 Report control with expanded report parameter panel AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 13 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqgmbh de laa 9 Dashboards Remaining Work X 1 of 1 4 i B e E a id Whole Page Find Next Show or Hide Parameter Area E Hours Remaining Hours Completed Hours c2 ut Caption 13 Report control with collapsed report parameter panel 7 Extending the work item visualization The AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board is built on WPF technology It uses Data Templates to define the visual appearance of a work item The templates must be packaged in a XAML file containing a resource dictionary ResourceDictionary xmlnsz http schemas microsoft com winfx 2006 xaml presentation xmlns xz http schemas microsoft com winfx 2006 xaml lt ResourceDictionary gt You can specify a Data Template for each Work Item Type The Data Templates must be named using the following naming schema WorkItemTypeName WorkItemTemplate Where WorkItemTypeName is the name of the work item type with no white spaces The following table shows some samples for work item types and the correspo
3. Click the Zoom Out button in order to zoom out which means to decrease the size of the work item visualizations 4 12 Help Click the Help button in order to show this document 4 13 About Click the About button in order to show information about the application AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 9 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqgmbh de asa O 5 Task board Usage Pending Count 128 In Work Count 11 Don 13 Task 2 4 J 3 Requirment 2 Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectman Ab riy fa Peter Projectmanager a Task 2 5 Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectma 00 T y 3 Fi j y 5 ri 18 Task 3 2 16 j Requirment 3 Meo Nearshore Todt Tester fils 0 2 Caption 4 Work Items visualized in Task board According to you configuration the task board visualizes your work items The task board comes with a predefined set of work item type visualizations For customized work item visualizations contact us In order get more overview of the whole bunch of work items the task board allows you to zoom via buttons in the ribbon or via keyboard shortcuts CTRL to zoom in CTRL to zoom out AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 10 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de Pending Count 128 In Work Count 11
4. If Task work item types exists the will be preselected otherwise you need to choose your items manually In the States section you can define your own states we refer to these states as Custom States For each state you configure which work item states it should refer to Because it is possible to select different work item types as child items which can have different state models multiple work item state assignments might be required By default the following states are created Pending state is created if a Proposed work item state exists AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 7 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de Ai n Work state is created if an Active work item state exists Done is created if a Resolved work item state exists You can rename the states by selecting it with the mouse and enter a new name You can change the color of a state by choosing the Button which will open a color picker that allows you to select a color The buttons between the lists have the following purpose qp Adds a new Custom State to the list EX Removes the selected Custom State from the list 4f Moves the selected Custom State up in the list w Moves the selected Custom State down in the list The drop down Query allows you to select a query from your Team Project Any filtering or sorting should be applied in the query In order to correctly leverage t
5. Maier Frrgecirranacper Peter Progen ee rag Paier Progen a Here coma Pecar Eni 5 and tere goes Gee det for Lmpriprrevi hak 52 and ihre corra xm cia Bik niomriins ster Frrmcirana ze Aster Pruwcirnanazer Peter Progen Meter Pruweirnanacee TT pay Drar t i Amt Caption 5 Zoomed Task board When you select a work item an edit bar is shown which allows you to quickly modify numeric values returned by your query Pending Count 128 In Work Count 11 Done Count 6 Peter Projectmanager Caption 6 Task board with the selected work item and edit bar If you want to edit more details of a work item you can either double click the work item or use the More link from the edit bar to open the work item form An edited work item is visualized with a dashed border line AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 11 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info oaitgmbh de asa 0 In order to change the state of a work item you can drag it from one state to another Dropping a work item on a state is only possible if the work items state model supports switching to that state For each backlog item a summary is shown which we refer to as Row Summary The row summary shows a bar that reflects the values for each state Which value to consider can be configured in the Settings dialog See 4 4 Edit l Requirment 3 lane Developer Chris Customer Todt Tester
6. Otherwise the conversion will be from Boolean to visibility The default value is False A Boolean value If set to true the bound Boolean value is logical negotiated before using it to determine the visibility The default value is False OnTrue The visibility to return when the input value after applying the Not configuration is evaluated as True OnFalse The visibility to return when the input value after applying the Not configuration is evaluated as False 7 3 StringNullVisibilityConverter The StringNullVisibilityConverter can be used when binding to strings It returns Visibility Visible when the bound string value is neither null nor empty Otherwise it returns Visibility Hidden 7 4 TimelnStateConverter The TimelnStateConverter is a sample that shows how a converter can be used to perfrom specifc calculation logic for the visualization based on the bound work item It can be sued as follows lt TextBlock Text Binding Converter StaticResource TimeInStateConverter ConverterParameter TotalHours StringFormat 0 F0 gt The Converter is looking for fields in the work item that track the Enter Time for a state These fields are named StateName Enter Time The State Name is evaluated on the bound work item using the work items current state If an Enter Time field is found for the current state the difference between that field s value and DateTime Now is calculated Based on the ConverterParameter Minu
7. Row 2 Grid ColumnSpan 2 TextTrimming CharacterEllipsis gt lt TextBlock Text gt Binding Path Fields Assigned To Value lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt StackPanel Grid Row 3 Grid ColumnSpan 2 Orientation Horizontal lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter ConverterParameter Baseline Work gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter ConverterParameter Original Estimate TextBlock Text lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter ConverterParameter Remaining Work gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter ConverterParameter Completed Work gt TextBlock Text TextBlock lt StackPanel gt lt Grid gt lt DataTemplate gt The above template uses a set of converters to retrieve certain values from the work item In order to use the converters shipped with the AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board you need to include those as follows AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 15 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technolog
8. isi T j foy2 Caption 7 Row Summary to visualize values from state 36 Requirment 3 36 Requirment 3 Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectmanager 0 mm o ME Caption 8 Unfiltered Row Summary Caption 9 Filtered Row Summary When the task board is filtered see 4 8 Assigned To the bar reflects in faded colors the overall summary and in normal colors the values for the person currently filtered For each state a summary is shown which we refer to as Column Summary The column summary shows a numeric value for each state Which values to consider can be configured in the Settings dialog See 4 4 Edit AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 12 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG l T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de cose i Pending Count 128 In Work Count 11 15 12 Task 2 6 Task 2 3 Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectmanager Peter Projectmanager f6 3 riy f2f Caption 10 Unfiltered Column Summary Pending Count 19 128 In Work count 1 11 Al Task 3 5 Jane Developer fa Caption 11 Filtered Column Summary 6 Reports Usage The reports control allows you to select any of your team project related reports via the dropdown After choosing a report it will be shown in the report viewer The report viewer allows you to configure parameters for your report Dashboards Remaining Work v From Date 11 04 2010 8
9. Find Next Proposed Count 33 Active Count 4 Resolved Count 13 Closed Count 15 11917 11957 11956 Automatically open the last Test the fix Implement the fix configuration dors not work under some scenarios Fix layouting the edit bar when showing input field in https teamservice aitag com tfs defaultcollection AlT Taskboard Requirements Caption 1 Task board view 4 Ribbon Usage Home fs m i5 bel a S oes 4 8 amp a 90 Connect New Edit Publish Refresh Style Full Zoomin Zoom Help screen out TFS Connection Configuration Work Items Filter View Help 4 1 Connect Click on Connect to connect to your Team Foundation Server When clicking Connect to TFS the following dialog will be shown which allows you to select your Team Project Collection and your Team Project AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 5 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de asa 0 a Connect to Team Project Select a Team Foundation Server tfs2010 Servers Team Project Collections Team Projects Gy AIT Demos Tii Experimentallsh Taskboard Agile Taskboard CMMI Taskboard KanBan Taskboard KanBanZ Taskboard KanBan3 Caption 2 Select Team Project Collection and Team Project 4 2 Open Click Open to open an existing task board configuration 4 3 New Select New to create a new task board configuration After choosing your fil
10. e the Settings dialog will be shown 4 4 Edit Select Edit in order to configure your task board settings AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 6 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de asa 0 Al Taskboard Settings Backlog Items Child Items Bug Bug Task Task E Issue E Issue E Change Request E Change Request C Risk E Risk Requirement Requirement C Review C Review E Test Case E Test Case Shared Steps E Shared Steps States Pending DEN 5 Active Closed In Work Proposed Dosis Resolved Design Ready Query Link Types Any link type Item Sorting None E Ascending ind Row Summary count rj Column Summary Count OK Cancel Caption 3 Task board Settings Dialog In the Backlog Items list choose the work item types you consider as backlog items These work item types will be shown on the left side in the task board By default your process template is checked for categories Bugs and Requirements in order to determine the work item types If the categories do not exist no pre selection will be done and you need to choose your items manually In the Child Items list choose the work item types you consider as children of your backlog items These work item types will be shown in the task board grouped by their state By default your process template is checked for Task work item types
11. en IM cH E ME EE 9 AEL ZOON OI U POT 9 gaie TOU e A A 9 ME ool a E A EA E 9 D TRDO UE r E nee en re eer 10 o Reports Usa Esnia a E erent nee 13 7 Extending the work item visualization sosseuseseesesrenssserresrrrsssreresrresssreresererssreresererssrereseeersseeee 14 7 1 Blocked Con Tu ETT OTT 16 7 2 BOG GaN IS IOI Uy Me yn T BU OT 16 7 3 StringNullVisibilityConverter eeesseeeeeeeeeenneennnnennen nnne nnne nnne nnne nnns 17 7 4 A iag lgiey dhe Siu c 17 7 5 UserNameTolmageConverter siccicosccciecsgcencesivtcnseacvidesacuntencastvenannedescniandsetuthovstanteateiacsseaseietas 17 7 6 WorkltemNumericFieldValueConverter ccccccccccccsessssseecccceeeaeesseeeccceessaeaeseeeecesesseaaassses 17 7 7 FieldValueVisitvColWVelle cssncescicdueeppadivesaiecuchsua Uere bded EEEE EAA ASE 18 AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 3 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de aaa O 1 System Requirements e Windows XP SP2 or later Windows Vista Business edition or higher x86 32bit and x64 64bit editions Windows 7 e Team Foundation Explorer 2010 e Team Foundation Server 2010 2 Installation Manual To install the AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board unpack the file AIT Task board zip and execute AIT Task board Application application The following screen will appear p SS Applicatio
12. entWI FirstChildWI NextWI Proposed Enter Completed Work Development Enter Completed Work Test Enter Completed Work Deployment Enter Completed Work Proposed Leave Completed Work Development Leave Completed Work Test Leave Completed Work Deployment Leave Completed Work AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 8 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de TE 4 6 Refresh Click on the Refresh button in order to refresh the work items according to your configured work item query 4 7 Style The AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board allows you to specify the style used to visualize work items When clicking the Style button you can choose your work item styles For more information about extending the work item visualization see chapter 7 Extending the work item visualization 4 8 Assigned To The combo box Assigned To allows you to filter the task board for certain users Only items being assigned to the chosen user will be shown Also the row summary will highlight the row summary value matching the user in contrast to the total row summary values see Row Summary for more details 4 9 Full Screen Click the Full Screen button in order to switch to full screen mode Press ESC key to return to normal screen mode 4 10 Zoom In Click the Zoom In button in order to zoom in which means to increase the size of the work item visualizations 4 11 Zoom Out
13. he features of the task board you should consider selecting a hierarchical query which is either a tree query or a direct link query Attention f the query does not return any link information the task board visualization will not work Additionally the query defines the fields that could be edited in the work item edit bar Some numeric fields are black listed tin the software and will never be editable in the edit bar The drop down Link Type allows you to select a specific work item link type If a specific work item link type is defined then only links of that type are considered between backlog items and child items The drop downs tem Sorting allow you to define a specific item sorting together with the sort direction If None is defined the sorting from the query is kept The drop down Row Summary allows you to define which values to choose in order to determine the Row Summary see Row Summary for more details Only numeric fields returned by the query are considered The drop down Column Summary allows you to define which values to choose in order to determine the Column Summary see Column Summary for more Only numeric fields returned by the query are considered When clicking OK your changes are accepted and the task board is refreshed 4 5 Publish Click on the Publish icon to save changes you made to any of the work items in the task board t Black listed fields are Iteration ID IterationID Area ID ArealD Par
14. ies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de asa O ResourceDictionary xmlnsz http schemas microsoft com winfx 2006 xaml presentation xmlns xz http schemas microsoft com winfx 2006 xaml xmlns converterz clr namespace AIT Taskboard Application Converter assembly AIT Taskboard Application converter BlockedConverter x Key BlockedConverter converter TimeInStateConverter x Key TimeInStateConverter gt converter UserNameToImageConverter x Key UserNameToImageConverter gt converter WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter x Key WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter gt lt ResourceDictionary gt The AIT TeamSystemPro Task board is shipped with the following set of converters BlockedConverter BooleanToVisibilityConverter StringNullVisibilityConverter TimelnStateConverter UserNameTolmageConverter WorkltemNumericFieldValueConverter FieldValueVisibilityConverter In order to control the size of the work items elements in the task board you can add two double resources to you resource dictionary as follows s Double x Keyz TemplateWidth 160 s Double s Double x Keyz TemplateHeight 120 s Double It s important to use the right names for those two resources TemplateHeight and TemplateWidth 7 1 BlockedConverter The BlockedConverter is used to convert the values of the Blocked field into a Visibility value Image Source SmallImage
15. n Install Security Warning 0 Do you want to install this application Name Taskboard From Hover over the string below to see the full domain D Local Customer Projects AIT ATaskboard Publisher AIT AG Install Don t Install While applications can be useful they can potentially harm your computer If you do not trust the source do not install this software More Information Click on nstall to start the setup When the installation succeeds the AIT Task Board application will start 3 General user interface description The task board consists of three areas Ribbon which allows interaction with the task board Report control to display reports from projects reporting portal Task board control to visualize work items Between report and task board area is a splitter that allows hiding either the report area or the task board area The ribbon can be minimized and maximized by double clicking the Home ribbon tab AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 4 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de so 9 ul AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board C Users Lar Pictures Taskboard AIT Taskboard tbconfig m E X J Y Home fs 9 m i5 ld ae al Jaaaj 90 Connect New Edit Publish Refresh Style Full Zoomin Zoom Help screen out TFS Connection Configuration Work Items Filter View Help Report Remaining Work hd i E Qu g 50
16. nding data template keys Work Item Type Name Data Template Key User Story UserStoryWorkltemTemplate Requirement RequirementWorkltemTemplate Task TaskWorkltemTemplate AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 14 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de The data context for each work item template is a Workltem object A simple template for a task work item is shown below lt DataTemplate x Key TaskWorkItemTemplate gt lt Grid gt lt Grid ColumnDefinitions gt lt ColumnDefinition Width Auto gt lt ColumnDefinition Width gt Grid ColumnDefinitions lt Grid RowDefinitions gt lt RowDefinition Height Auto gt lt RowDefinition Height gt RowDefinition Height Auto RowDefinition Height Auto Grid RowDefinitions Image Source Images Task png Grid ColumnSpan 2 Grid RowSpan 2 Opacity 2 Image Source SmallImages forbidden png Grid Column 1 Margin 2 Width 16 Height 16 HorizontalAlignment Right gt lt Image Visibility gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource BlockedConverter ConverterParameter Blocked gt lt Image Visibility gt lt Image gt lt TextBlock Grid Column 1 Margin 2 Text Binding Path Id gt lt TextBlock Grid Row 1 Grid ColumnSpan 2 Margin 2 Text Binding Path Title TextTrimming CharacterEllipsis TextWrapping Wrap gt lt TextBlock Grid
17. s forbidden png Grid Column 1 Margin 2 Width 16 Height 16 HorizontalAlignment Right gt lt Image Visibility gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource BlockedConverter ConverterParameter Blocked gt lt Image Visibility gt lt Image gt The BlockedConverter requires as ConverterParameter the name of the field to evaluate The field specified should have Yes or No as value If the field s value is Yes Visibility Visible is retruned otherwise Visibility Hidden is returned Although the converter is named BlockedConverter it allows you to work with any field that has Yes No values 7 2 BooleanToVisibilityConverter As the name implies the BooleanToVisibilityConverter converts a Boolean value into a Visibility value The converter can be used when binding to Boolean value The converter allows to configure which visibility to return for which Boolean value converter BooleanToVisibilityConverter x Key HiddenIfNotTrue Inverted True Not False OnTrue Vi sible OnFalse Hidden gt The BooleanToVisibilityConverter has the following parameters AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 16 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitgmbh de aaa O Parameter Description Inverted A Boolean value When set to True the conversion is from Visibility to Boolean which means the value bound is a Visibility value and the converted value will be a Boolean
18. shows how the FieldValueVisibilityConverter is integrated converter FieldValueVisibilityConverter x Key FieldValueVisibilityConverter MatchedVisibility Visible UnmatchedVisibility Hidden The following shows how the converter is applied to set the visibility of an image based on the value of a work item field Image Source SmallImages forbidden png Grid Column 1 Margin 2 Widthz 16 Height 16 HorizontalA lignment Right gt lt Image Visibility gt lt MultiBinding Converter StaticResource FieldValueVisibilityConverter ConverterParameter M icrosoft VSTS CMMI RequirementType gt lt Binding gt Binding Source StaticResource AllowedRequirementTypeFunctionalj Binding Source StaticResource AllowedRequirementTypeBusiness MultiBinding Image Visibility lt Image gt The first value in the multi binding is always the work item The following bindings refer to the values to check If either of the values is set in the field the visibility is set to the configured MatchedvVisibility otherwise the UnmatchedVisibility is set The field that should be check is specified via the ConverterParameter AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 18 of 18
19. tes Hours or Days are returned The allowed ConverterParamters are TotalDays TotalHours and TotalMinutes If no parameter is specified or an invalid parameter is specified the Timespan value is returned 7 5 UserNameToImageConverter The UserNameTolmageConverter tries to find images for users It can be used when being bound to a string value The converter is looking for user images in the execution directory The images should be named UserName png where UserName matches the bound string value If no user image is found the converter returns one of the default images 7 6 WorkltemNumericFieldValueConverter The WorkltemNumericFieldConverter converts a numeric field value Its fails safe if the field does not exist or the field has no value If the field exists but has no value O zero is returned lt TextBlock gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt Binding Converter StaticResource WorkItemNumericFieldValueConverter ConverterParameter Original Estimate gt lt TextBlock Text gt lt TextBlock gt The converter must be bound to the work item instance and expects as ConverterParamter the name of the field AIT TeamSystemPro Task Board Page 17 of 18 AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH amp CO KG Al T Internet www aitgmbh de E mail info aitqmbh de A 5 7 7 FieldValueVisiilityConverter The FieldValueVisibilityConverter allows you set the visibility of an item based on the value of a work item field The following
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