Archiving/removing older builds from the New Bug form -- only want to show the last few builds -- TFS 2005

Question

Using TFS 2005. 

newbie que: One thing that we have to deal with in our build system is that we will effectively have thousands of builds before we release the product to market.  How does one go about archiving older builds?  At any given time, I don't want to have more than 5-10 builds available in the "Found in field" for the QA Team.

I have set up a filter subscribing to only successful/accepted builds.  However, what is the best way of removing older builds from the drop down for the found in build?  I do not want to show builds from last month or anything older than 2 weeks at the most.  Is this possible?

Does the removal of the builds from the drop down for the found in build impact the reporting?

What's the best solution for the above problem?

Answer 1

Hi HKWest,

Thanks for your post and glad to work with you again.

Found in field has a SuggestedValues rule with a global list. The global list name is "Builds - <Build Type Name>". Whenever a TFS build completes, TFS will add one item into the list.

You can remove the item from the list by tools glimport and glexport. For detail, please take a look of the link: http://blog.benday.com/archive/2007/10/23/23165.aspx

It won't affect report because TFS won't import the global list into data warehouse. The build dimension is built from TfsBuild database.

Note that since the global list is only the SuggestedValues for the Found in field, so any other input which is not in the list will also by accepted by TFS.
Whenever TFS build compilation error, TFS will create a new work item for it. The work item's found in field will be the build name value no matter it is listed in the Global list or not.

Hope it helps.

 

Hongye Sun [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hello,

Is this issue resolved? Thanks.

 

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