How to: View the Project Portal

The project portal is a Windows SharePoint Services site created by the New Team Project Wizard. The Web parts and layout of the project portal are determined by the process template selected in the wizard. Your team project might not have a project portal if the process template did not include a portal or a portal was not added later.

You can locate the project portal from either the Team menu or from Team Explorer.

Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator or your team project administrator to make sure that your user account has the permissions described in the following section.

Required Permissions

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Team Foundation Valid Users security group. If the necessary security permissions are set explicitly, you must have the View project-level information permission on the team project set to Allow. You must also be a member of the Windows SharePoint Services Reader security group. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To view the project portal from Visual Studio

  1. In Team Explorer, click the team project node.

  2. On the Team menu, click Show Project Portal.

  3. View the project portal home page.

  4. Locate other parts of the project portal by using either the project portal menu bar or the Quick Launch links.

To view the project portal from Team Explorer

  1. In Team Explorer, right-click the team project node, and then click Show Project Portal.

  2. View the project portal home page.

  3. Locate other parts of the project portal by using either the portal menu bar or the Quick Launch links.

See Also

Other Resources

Using the Team Project Portal