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New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

hayderc — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:27:41 GMT

its as nice to query with but you can do alot with contains and does not contains. if you are looking for only one field is chekced use contains the specific tag and does not contain ; so you know its a single value...etc.

New Post: Web browser control

MousetrapSystems — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:51:33 GMT

I finally figured out what 'diegot' is talking about. (took a bit though, because his description is a bit vague).

Basically, if you're using Process Template Editor to register the WebBrowserControl, a curious behaviour of the editor (within Process Template Editor) is that it trims anything where a second "equals" sign is encountered. I.e. you may have put in

URL=http://bbwk35/TFSCargaHoras/Default.aspx?WorkItem={0}

but when you view it in the XML, it has cleared the value

So this is actually a bug in the Process Template Editor, not in the WitCustomControl code.
I suggest the workaround (which works for us) is to put the value in the keyname ... i.e. without the equals sign. you could use your own delimiter, so long as the code on the Default.aspx page knows how to iterate through the keys of the Request.QueryString object. i.e. the data is being passed in the name rather than the value but that's okay because it bypasses the problem.

http://bbwk35/TFSCargaHoras/Default.aspx?WorkItem|{0}

This approach worked for our implementation, hope it helps someone else who is encountering the same issue.
Regards,

New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

praveenadini — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:09:15 GMT

I tried that too but the problem is you cant query a plaintext field.

New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

hayderc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:48:21 GMT

You can modify the control such that you can specify a PlainText field for the field itself and a different field for the allowed values. you can specify custom attributes in the control element in the WIT defintion XML. you need to modify this custom control to read the custom attributes and use the alternate field for allowed values. Hope this is clear. let me know if you have more questions.

New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

praveenadini — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:20:27 GMT

I can't use plaintext field as it doesn't accept suggestedvalues list. Is there any other way of updating the field length and also by passing the field validation.

New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

holisticdeveloper — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:21:05 GMT

Maybe you can use a PlainText field instead?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194980.aspx

New Post: Multivalue control string restriction

praveenadini — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:41:54 GMT

Hi,

I have created a multivalue control which has a bunch of values. When i try to save a record which has more than 255 characters it threw an error saying that length of the field value has exceeded 255 characters. After doing some research i found out that the column defined in the database has a size of 256. Is there anyway we can control this? This is kind of critical for our implementation. If we can't control this is there any other control that can provide the same functionality.

New Post: Using a Global List with the Multiple Value Control

holisticdeveloper — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:35:44 GMT

To fix this, I removed the 'expanditems="false"' attribute from the <SUGGESTEDVALUES> element.

New Post: Multi Value Control Issues

danielhs — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:58:06 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have two issues when creating a multi value control.

1) I have created a multiple value control like below. It is OK when I hard-coding the List Item value.

<FIELD name="Triage" refname="Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Triage" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <REQUIRED /> <HELPTEXT>Status of triaging the bug</HELPTEXT> <SUGGESTEDVALUES expanditems="false"> <LISTITEM value="[Name A]" /> <LISTITEM value="[Name B]" /> <LISTITEM value="[Name C]" /> </SUGGESTEDVALUES> </FIELD>

But when I used Global list, an error message occur: "Triage does not have any values to list in the multiple value control. See “Work Item Tracking Multiple Value Control.doc” for details on defining a field to support the multiple value control".

my global list defined as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <gl:GLOBALLISTS xmlns:gl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/workitemtracking/globallists"> <GLOBALLIST name="TechnicalGroups"> <LISTITEM value="[Name A]" /> <LISTITEM value="[Name B]" /> <LISTITEM value="[Name C]" /> </GLOBALLIST> </gl:GLOBALLISTS>

my work item defined as:

<FIELD name="Triage" refname="Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Triage" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <REQUIRED /> <HELPTEXT>Status of triaging the bug</HELPTEXT> <SUGGESTEDVALUES expanditems="false"> <GLOBALLIST name="CustomerProjects" /> </SUGGESTEDVALUES> </FIELD>

I have found similar issues like this in this forum, but still don't get the solution. Can someone help me out please?

2) I have installed WitCustomControlSetup.exe in my server to implement multi value control. But I cannot used it in the client when I want to add a work item. The dll is missing. Do i need to install WitCustomControlSetup.exe in every client to use it? Please help on this.

Thanks in advance.

New Post: MultiValue Control

jjslagace — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:01:04 GMT

Hi praveenadini,

For the web interface (I assume you mean Team System Web Access), you need to deploy the custom control to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Web Access\Web\App_Data\CustomControls (that is if you installed it to the default path).

However, you need a different control (WebControl) than the one you used for team explorer for it to work in TSWA. You can find it in the SDK that comes with TSWA under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Web Access\Sdk\CustomControlSamples.

Regards,

New Post: controlling users from manually entering values

praveenadini — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:18:08 GMT

Hi,

Can someone please help me out about how to control users from manually entering a value into the multivalue control field. From Team Explorer if we manually enter a value and tried to save the work item it doesn't save it. But when you try to enter the value from TSWA and save the work item it saves the work item along with the value even though its not in the suggested values list. We are close to our UAT and need a response ASAP. Any response would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Praveen

New Post: Web browser control

diegoet — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:19:13 GMT

I need to Know how to use this control.

I create a cotrol of type "WebBrowserControl", I complete the Atributes whit :

URL=http://bbwk35/TFSCargaHoras/Default.aspx?WorkItem={0}

Params=System.Id

but the URL is truck before "="

the URL lose "={0}".

someone can help me?

thank.

New Post: MultiValue Control

praveenadini — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:29:24 GMT

I have added a multivalue control to my work item. It works fine on the client server side. On the web interface it created a Text Field instead of a multivalue list. Can someone help me out?

New Post: Custom Control on Windows 7

daryamaz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:51:43 GMT

I'm using the windows 7 beta with visual studio 2008. I installed the custom controls and was trying to use the multivalue control but I get this error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I confirmed the files were present at \programdata\microsoft\team foundation\work item tracking\custom controls

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

New Post: Using a Global List with the Multiple Value Control

alexvaccaro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:37:13 GMT

Yes, it works for me, I setup a global list and the control shows the values in the drop down.
The only thing I notice in you example is that you have a value with a blank space, try removing it and see if that works.

New Post: Using a Global List with the Multiple Value Control

HolisticDeveloper — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:40:41 GMT

Hmm, not sure what the deal is then... I've got the following global list defined:

<GLOBALLIST name="CustomerProjects">
    <LISTITEM value="[EBPC]" />
    <LISTITEM value="[SMART]" />
    <LISTITEM value="[ASI]" />
    <LISTITEM value="[BC Transit]" />
</GLOBALLIST>

And in my work item, the field is defined as:

      <FIELD name="Customer Project" refname="Stratagen.CustomerProject" type="String" reportable="dimension">
        <HELPTEXT>Customer and/or Project</HELPTEXT>
        <SUGGESTEDVALUES expanditems="false">
            <GLOBALLIST name="CustomerProjects" />
        </SUGGESTEDVALUES>
      </FIELD>

When I try to create a new work item, I get the following error message:
---------------------------
Multiple Value Control
---------------------------
Customer Project does not have any values to list in the multiple value control. See “Work Item Tracking Multiple Value Control.doc” for details on defining a field to support the multiple value control.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

New Post: List of Multiple Selections into DB as relational data

GriffWampa — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:22:35 GMT

I'm new to TFS and am still learning the capabilities it has to offer, particularly for extensibility. I've tried this control out and have a question: does TFS support making a data entry that is basically a table of related data (OLTP side anyway) instead of the concatenated string this control produces? Does TFS offer any alternative (multiple records with the same internal foreign-ID in the same table as a normally selected single-value string result) to a normalized relationship of newly created input data/tables? I'd think this would heavily impact just what kind of controls you can make.

New Post: Using a Global List with the Multiple Value Control

alexvaccaro — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:05:11 GMT

it does for me, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194977.aspx
remember to provide values in square brackets [ ]

New Post: Using a Global List with the Multiple Value Control

HolisticDeveloper — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:37:25 GMT

Does the multiple value control support pulling its list from a global list, rather than hard-coding the suggested values?

New Post: TFS 2008 & mixed clients (VS2005 & VS2008)

JC2003 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:02:07 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to get the screenshot capture control working on a mixed client environment(unfortunately not all our developers are using VS2008 yet), we are currently running a VS2008 TFS with the custom control install and i have no problem viewing forms with the control in using VS2008. But when i try and view the same forms using VS2005 i get a 'object reference not set to an instance of an object', any ideas why this isn't working? i've got the SP1 installed with VS2005 as i need this to connect to TFS 2008 anyway.

Any help would be great,

Thanks,

JC