We use Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server at work. It has a task board showing the development, testing, documentation, and other tasks that go into a release as cards in “Not Started”, “In Progress”, or “Done” columns. The idea is to let you see the status of your project at a glance, but all the cards are the same color. What’s the status of the release? Are we waiting on development? Testing? UAT? You can’t tell without reading every card title. It would be better if, say, all development tasks were in green, all testing tasks were in orange, and all development tasks were in yellow. Is the “Not Started” column filled with mostly green? Yes? Then we’re still waiting for development. When we see the “Done” column filling up with green and the “In Progress” columns filling up with orange, we know we’ve entered the testing phase. If you can colorize the cards on the board, you can see the status of your project at a glance.
That’s what this plugin does. It lets you associate card colors with text contents. If the card title starts with “Analysis” it’s red. If it contains “Testing”, it’s orange, and so on. It makes the TFS board far, far more useful.
Download the plugin here: TFS Colorizer
The code is up on github.
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does this work with tfs2013… doesn’t seem that way over here
It’s possible that it doesn’t. I’ve only tested on 2012. If you’re willing to do a “Save As” of your board, I could take a look. Let me know and I’ll email you at the address you provided here with where to send it.
It could also be the URL. I restricted it to URLs matching “*://*/tfs/*/_boards”. If 2013 is different, let me know.
the url has _backlogs/taskboard#_a=requirements instead of _boards …..
could it be that?
@Mike, same problem here.
My URL, on tfs 2013, its the same as the @mervan.
OK, I updated it to “*://*/tfs/*/*board*”. The new version is 1.4. Let me know if that fixes it.
hello,
cant find 1.4 yet… is it up?
It should be now.
hmm seems to work now 😀 thank you so much. I will continue to check for updates!
it works for me, too. thank you so much.
I am working in some improvements, like show the “id” on task card and minimize rows that all cards are “done”. Your extension is awesome. 😀
Cool. Thanks, guys.
Is there anyway to add a color Code for a BLOCK or IMPEDIMENT? I would love to see these on the board in TFS. Currently as a workaround using the word Analysis as it is bright red.
Not that I know of. I’m styling the element solely based on what’s there in the DOM and nothing on the board indicates that it is blocked.
I spent a few hours trying to achieve this feature, but like Mike said, based on DOM it is not possible.
One very convoluted way would be to establish a web service that takes in the id number of the ticket, which is exposed in the DOM, pass it along to the TFS api, get back data about the ticket and pass it back to the client. Then the client could apply the styling from there.