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Montse
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Posted: Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, MS Project and "Assigned To" field |
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Hello,
I'd like to know if it's possible that the "Assigned To" field in Team Foundation has the format "firstname.lastname" instead of "last name, first name".
I have to publish my MS Project plan in a global MS Project server of my company, that uses the "firstname.lastname" format for the Resources Pool, so when I try to syncronize with Team Foundation I get an error because the "Assigned To" field is not a valid user.
Please, could you help me
Thanks,
Montse
Visual Studio Team System19
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ThermoGuy
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Montse
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Posted: Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, MS Project and "Assigned To" field |
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Hi, thank you very much for your help, but I'm not sure if that hotfix will resolve my issue. Let me explain, the problem is that the MS Project Server is always displaying the Enterprise ID from the Active Directory, and in my case the MS Project Server is maintained by a global team in my organization, and I cannot change anything in it.
However, Team Foundation is using the friendly names in the "Assigned To" fields, so doesn't matter the separator, they cannot be syncronize because it is not the same information.
Please, do you think the hotfix will also resolve that problem or can I configure Team Foundation in order to display the Enterprise ID instead of the friendly name in the "Assigned To" field
Thanks!
Montse
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Yogita Manghnani
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Posted: Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, MS Project and "Assigned To" field |
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Montse,
The fix will not address your issue. It will fix the problem where Project considers the comma to be a separator and breaks the user name into 2.
I'll have to find out if TFS can be configured to display the enterprise id instead of the friendly name.
Will keep you posted.
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SanjayNarang
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Posted: Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, MS Project and "Assigned To" field |
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Montse,
I'm not sure what you mean by Enterprise ID - is it some field in AD
At present, TFS supports two types of "assigned to" formats: one, "Friendly Name", which is default, second, AD account name (e.g. MyDomain\MyLoginName - which used by default till Beta 3 Refresh version of TFS.
If you need to set-up TFS for AD Account name, you need to do that while starting the installation, you can not switch once TFS is installed. The steps to do that are:
1. On the app-tier, create the regkey HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation\WorkItemTracking
2. Set a DWORD value of 1 for "AccountDisplayMode".
3. Run TFS AT setup
Now, your enterrprise ID doesn't look like AD account - so it won't help your problem. On the other note you can do the following:
1. Map "Assigned to" field to some other text field in MS Project mappings, and make that text column hidden in MS Project
2. Write VBA (or VSTO) code that copies values from Resource Names to new text column and also does the conversion from firstname.lastname to "last name, first name"
3. Distribute that file (may be through your process template WSS files) to all who want to work with MS Project
This way, you two fields one each for Project Server and TFS and have the code to synchronize between them
HTH
Sanjay
http://sanjaynarang.wordpress.com
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Dan Kershaw
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Posted: Team Foundation Server - Work Item Tracking, MS Project and "Assigned To" field |
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Please NOTE:
Sanjay's suggestion to change your installation is NOT a supported configuration for Team Foundation Server. If you must use aliases rather than display names, you will need to contact Customer Support.
Thanks,
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