Accessing Work Items

Queries

Your TFS work items can be interacted with directly within the integrated Task List. First, create a query for the TFS work items you wish to view in your Task List. Click the New drop down in the Task List toolbar and select New Query. Select the TFS Repository you wish to query and press Next. In the resulting query page, expand the tree until you find the desired query to run. You can later repeat this process to add any number of queries in order to track all the TFS work items that are important to you.


Tasks

Once the query has time to synchronize with TFS, a number of tasks should appear in your Task List.


Blue arrows appear in the Task List next to work items with new (unread) information. Double click to view the new information in a rich editor. Note that changed attributes are highlighted in blue. Make changes to your TFS work items within this rich editor:

Once you have made the desired changes, press the Submit button (located bottom left in the editor and top right in the editor toolbar). The changes will be submitted to TFS and a blue arrow will appear in your team members' Task Lists indicating that a new change has been made.