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Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization

You're reading from   Team Foundation Server 2015 Customization Take your expertise to the next level by unraveling various techniques to customize TFS 2015

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785888199
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Creating a Dashboard and a Welcome Page FREE CHAPTER 2. Streamlining Your Teams' Boards 3. Customizing Your Process Template 4. Enhanced Work Item Forms with Field Custom Controls 5. The Guide Standards for Check-in Policies 6. Enforcing Standards with Server-Side Plugins 7. Customizing the TFS Build 8. Creating TFS Scheduled Jobs 9. Service Hooks 10. VSO Extensions Index

Configuring swimlanes

A swimlane is a horizontal row added to your board to categorize specific work; for example, you can add a swimlane called expedite and place work items that are of top priority in that swimlane to visually group this higher priority work.

The next configurable bits are swimlanes. These are configurable on the Kanban board only, as it makes sense that certain tasks wouldn't go into an expedite lane; the entire requirement would move into that lane. Clicking on the Swimlanes option in the settings dropdown will show you the CUSTOMIZE SWIMLANES dialog, as shown in this screenshot:

Configuring swimlanes

Figure 19: The CUSTOMIZE SWIMLANES dialog

To add a new swimlane, click on the add Swimlane button, and you'll see the following screen:

Configuring swimlanes

Figure 20: Adding a new swimlane

Your lane will be added with a default name, which you can and should change. You'll also notice that you can click and drag the swimlanes to reorder them vertically, and then they will be displayed in that order on...

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