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  • Chris Adams avatar

    Posted on Feb 15, 2011 (permalink)

    Hey-

    I've recently upgraded two machines to beta 4 and now both are exhibiting behavior that is extremely frustrating.  After upgrading to Beta 4, we noticed that for all projects that iteration effort was always showing no work complete.  When I attempt to make changes to the system through F3 -> Projects -> then click Configure the machine literally hangs (windows circle of death).

    In some cases, I'm lucky and I can use tasklist to find the process remotely and then use taskkill to kill it.  This behavior never occurred until we upgraded to Beta 4.

    Please help otherwise we might just forfeit using this altogether...

    Thanks
    -Chris

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  • Greg Greg admin's avatar

    Posted on Feb 16, 2011 (permalink)

    Hello Chris Adams,

    I'm sorry to hear you are having difficulties with the latest beta. Very few changes were made to the Project Dashboard, so I am slightly puzzled to hear about your problems. In fact, I have been unable to reproduce the little "circle of death" after installing Beta 4, so I'm thinking it's something more specific.

    Could you send me the contents of the DashboardConfig.xml file? I'm wondering if something is corrupt within the file..  You'll find it in your Documents folder under Work Item Manager 2010\<your tfs server>\<your collection name>\<your project name>.

    With regards to the iteration effort, this is what the iteration effort section for our project dashboard looks like:

    <IterationEffort Enabled="true" UseGlobalPollInterval="false"
                    PollInterval="300" WorkItemType="Task" CompletedState="Done"
                    ExcludedStates="" CalculationMethod="Effort" TotalEffortField="Remaining Work"
                    RemainingEffortField="Completed Work" CompletedEffortColor="FF14BE00"
                    IncompleteEffortColor="FFFD6900" />

    Can you check yours to see if the settings make sense? A word of caution, editing this file manually doesn't update TFS if you are sharing project settings.

    Thanks, Greg
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  • Chris Adams avatar

    Posted on Apr 3, 2011 (permalink)

    Hey there-

    It looks like, after getting back to this after awhile, the problem was resolved.  I'm wondering if there was something occurring in TFS that was hidden a bit from me and this was the root cause.  As it stands now, I'm able to configure any of the settings as I'd like.

    Thanks,
    -Chris

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