Hi, I have tested my template customization changes in the test server and going to move these changes to the existing TFS and make it to new upgrade also. Please share your experiences on things that need to be taken care in importing these changes ,precautions need to be done and proper procedure to follow.
The most important changes that we did are:
- We did not do any changes for the existing fields rather than removing it from display.
- We added some new fields for estimates and completed effort.
- Rolling up efforts are done using Server Handler.
Specific doubts:
- While I was doing process template changes in test server, I got this error
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a5f6bcc3-8fc6-4c05-9efa-57ea789ec3bc/unable-to-create-team-project-using-agile-or-cmmi-templates?forum=tfsgeneral
I tried changing the reporting field back also, but still this problem is not solved. I need to be confident on avoiding suchtype of errors and should care on the precautions need to be taken.
- I am using new fields for roll up calculations in Server Handler code. After importing the changes to the process template, the previous work items will not have values for these fields. I assume it will not throw error when accessing the new fields from the work item since we have changed the process template and it should have the default value. I assume this will work fine.