How to: Enable or Disable Publishing of Work Items in Microsoft Project

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If you want to maintain certain work items in your project plan separately from your Team Foundation team project, Visual Studio Team System Office integration allows you to disable publishing of a work item to the work item database. If at some point you want to include the work item, you can enable publishing and the work item will be updated or added to your team project.

Note

If the work item already exists in your team project, when you disable publishing for the work item, any changes you make in Microsoft Project are not synchronized to your team project.

Required Permissions

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Readers group or have the View work items in this node permission set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To disable publishing of work items

  1. In your Microsoft Project file, ensure that the Publish and Refresh column is visible.

  2. Find the work item for which you want to disable publishing, and in the Publish and Refresh column, select No.

To enable publishing of work items

  1. In your Microsoft Project file, ensure that the Publish and Refresh column is visible.

  2. Find the work item for which you want to enable publishing, and in the Publish and Refresh column, select Yes.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Publish or Refresh Work Items in Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project