Professional Team Foundation Server

6.8. Integrating Processes into Team System

Once you have customized the process template to your liking, you must reimport it into Team Foundation Server to share it with the rest of the project team members. A project manager can share your custom process by creating a new project using your process. You must, of course, also verify that the process has been imported successfully. Here are the steps to import a custom process template into Team Foundation Server:

1. Select Process Template Manager by clicking Team Foundation Server Settings within the Team menu. The Process Template Manager displays all current available processes.

2. Click the Upload button and select your process template description file (ProcessTemplate.xml) using the Upload Process Template dialog box.

3. As soon as you click Open, the process template imports into Team Foundation Server and appears on the list of available processes.

4. Close the Process Template Manager.

6.8.1. Deleting Process Templates

Sometimes, process templates are no longer needed because they have been replaced by newer versions or they have become obsolete. We strongly recommend that you export a copy of the process template you want to delete as a backup before you take the steps to delete it. To delete a process template, simply follow these steps:

1. Choose the Process Template Manager by selecting Team Foundation Server Settings from the Team menu. You then see a list of all the available process templates.

2. Pick a process template to delete ...