How to: Modify Home Page Settings (Team System Web Access)

You can use Team System Web Access to modify the items that appear on the Home page and in the quick launch area. Items on the Home page that you can configure are WI's Assigned to Me and Recently Accessed Work Items. You can configure all the items in the quick launch area, such as Favorites, My Queries, and Reports. You can also specify how many recently accessed items are listed under each category, both on the Home page and in the quick launch area.

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 for the team project set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To configure items that appear on the Home page and quick launch area

1. In Team System Web Access, click Settings, click Profile, and then click Options.

2. In the Options dialog box, click the Home Page Settings tab.

3. Select the check box next to each item that you want to display on your Home page or in the quick launch area and then click OK.

   The items that you selected are saved in the Team System Web Access configuration and are displayed on the Home page.

To configure recent item, recent item menus, and results on the Home page

1. In Team System Web Access, click Settings, click Profile, and then click Options.

2. In the Options dialog box, click the Home Page Settings tab.

3. For the following items, click the arrow next to the item, and then click a number to represent how many items that you want displayed in each category.

   Feature Affected	How It Will Change
   Number of recent items in Quick Launch	The number of recently accessed items under each heading in the quick launch area is changed to the number that you specify. The default value is 5.
   Number of menu items of recent items in Quick Launch	The number of items that appear on the menu that is displayed when you click the arrow next to a heading in the quick launch area is changed to the number that you specify. The default value is 20.
   Number of results in Recently Accessed Work Items	The number of work items that are listed under Recently Accessed Work Items on the Home page is changed to the number that you specify. The default value is 5.

4. Click OK when you are finished.

   The page is refreshed, and the recent items, menu items, and recently accessed work item results display the number of items that you configured.

See Also

Tasks

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