Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

How to Create a Report Subscription
You can use report subscriptions to generate reports and export them to a file share for
further use. You can set the subscription to overwrite old reports, or you can build a set of
reports over time to view snapshots of project data.
To create a report subscription
1. In Team Explorer, right-click Reports for your team project, and then click Show
Report Site.
2. Open a report from the report site.
3. Click the Subscriptions tab.
4. Click New Subscription to create the report subscription.
How to Add a New Report to an Existing Process Template
You can use the Process Editor tool, available with the latest version of the Team
Foundation Server Power Tool, to add new reports to an existing process template. You
can download the Team Foundation Server Power Tool from
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718351.aspx.
To add new reports
1. Download the process template that most closely meets your requirements as follows:
a. In Visual Studio, click Team and then select Team Foundation Server
Settings.
b. Click Process Template Manager.
c. In the Process Template Manager dialog box, select the process template
you want to modify, and then click Download.
d. In the Download Process Template dialog box, select the folder location on
your local drive, and then click Save.
2. Open the Process Template in the Process Editor as follows:
a. In Visual Studio, click the Team menu.
b. Click Process Editor, and then click Open Process Template.
c. In the Open Process Template fileset dialog box, navigate to the downloaded
process template and then click Open.
This opens the ProcessTemplate.xml file in Visual Studio.
d. Set the Name of the methodology to which you are applying customizations.
3. In the Process Template Explorer, click Reports.
4. On the toolbar, click Add.
5. In the Report dialog box, on the Report Detail tab, enter a name for the report.
6. Browse to the .rdl file you want to add in the File Name field.
Leave the other fields unchanged and do not make any changes to the data on the
Properties and Parameters tabs.
7. On the DataSources tab, enter the appropriate data sources.
The default data sources for process templates shipped with TFS are
/TfsOlapReportDS and /TfsReportDS.
8. Click OK.