How to open TFS Power Tools - Alerts Explorer

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I have TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and the April TFS 2010 Power Tools installed. I am a Project Collection Administrator on my TFS Server (so permissions should not be an issue).

I want to open the alerts explorer, but when I right click on a project tab it is not there:

Missing Alerts Explorer

Just in case I tried upgrading to the March version of the TFS 2010 Power Tools. There was no change.

Opening the "Project Alerts" just gets me the normal Alerts dialog. I need to make a new alert.

Any ideas how I can get the missing menu item back?

Edit: I tried manually adding the menu item to the context menu. But I cannot find Alerts Explorer in any of the command lists.

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2 Answers

18
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It seems Alerts Explorer is no longer available in Team Project menu.

To create an Alert, you can open Alerts Explorer in following ways:

  1. From the Team menu in Visual Studio, click Alerts Explorer. Team > Alerts Explorer menu

  2. From the Team Explorer window, right-click the server\team project collection and then click Alerts Explorer. Team Explorer > Alerts Explorer menu

  3. For Work Items, you can Right Click a Work Item and choose 'Alert on change..'.

Right-click work item > Alert on change.. menu

  1. For Source Control, Right Click Source Control Items and choose 'Alert on Change..'. Right-click source control > Alert on change.. menu
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We had to install the Team Foundation Server Power Tools from December 2011 at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f