Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder

Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder

• John Birch

  Can you try right-clicking on the [project] and selecting "Show project portal"   Is this option "grayed out"
  I'm assuming here that when you run IE on the client, and you can navigate to the team project portal site, AND that you are running as the same user when using Team Explorer
  
  If this is the case:
  Can you take a look in the following folder on the client:
  %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Tea
  m Foundation\1.0\Cache
  
  In there should be a folder, with a GUID name. Go into this folder and open the "RegProxyFileCache.xml" file. Search for BaseSiteUrl and BaseSiteUnc. 
  Can you verify that the server name for these entries is the same as [server] above
  
  

• Mary Potapova

  I have the same problems like jherbst described above. Is this a problem with sharepoint services or TFS Beta 3
  

• Rossella

  This seems reasonable (assuming your server is PNSERVER4).
  Can you verify if you can navigate to the Sharepoint site using the "Show Project Portal" item (as described above) or is this also grayed out
  
  Thanks,
  
  

• RayAB

  I'm also got the same problem.I got this red cross not only on documents folder, but also reports folder and selecting "Show project portal" is grayed out" on client machine.any experts guide please...
  
  

• Quss

  Sorry for my late response, I was not in the office the last week.
  
  On my client I can use "Show Project Portal..." in VS.Net which opens successfully the sharepoint portal site in IE. But there is still a red cross on "documents" folder of the regarding project (team explorer).
  
  I verified again the user settings and it seems it is correct set on my server.
  I pasted below my user configuration of sharepoint project portal:
  
  -----------------------------------------------------

  	Add Users | Remove Selected Users | Edit Site Groups of Selected Users
  	Select All
  	Users User Name Site Groups TFSSETUP PNDOM\tfssetup Administrator
  	Domain Groups User Name Site Groups pndom\tfs developers PNDOM\tfs developers Contributor pndom\tfs project admins PNDOM\tfs project admins Administrator pndom\tfs support PNDOM\tfs support Reader
  -----------------------------------------------------

  
  I am member of group "pndom\tfs project admins".
  

• jimmyx

  now im using two machine for testing purposes. one of it using windows server 2003 trial version and another one is win2k3+SP1 Enterprise Edition.
  
  i follow all Matthew Watson guides. unfortunately, only the trial machine is working not for the full version w2k3+SP1.
  
  i've format and do the fresh installation of windows+sql server 2005+sharepoint services with SP1+foundation server+team explorer for 3 times on the win2k3+SP1 machine but it's doesn't work. still got cross mark at reports & documents folder.
  
  help2..or it is because the beta product
  

• Olafje

  Hi Dan,
  
  I cleaned the client side cache on my computer and reset also the user data of visual studio but it still shows a red cross on all documents folder
  
  Is there a switch to enable some kind of debugging/tracing/log on the client side to see whats happen there
  
  best regards,
  Johannes
  

• Nancy F.

  Have you added your users to the three necessary places: The Team System project, the Project Portal and the Reporting Services Like this:
  
  (1) Add user to appropriate project:
  (1.1) Right-click project (or root project for all projects)
  (1.2) Select "Team Project Settings".
  (1.3) Select "Group Membership".
  (1.2) Selecting the group to which you want to assign the user.
  (1.4) Click the "Properties" button.
  (1.5) Select the "Windows User or Group" radiobutton.
  (1.6) Clicking the "Add..." button.
  (1.7) Selecting the required user(s) and confirm it all.
  
  (2) Add user to Project Portal:
  (2.1) Right-click project and select "Show Project Portal".
  (2.2) Click "Site Settings"
  (2.3) In the "Administration" section, click "Manage Users"
  (2.4) Click "Add Users"
  (2.5) Fill in the list of users and follow the instructions.
        Note: User names include the domain, e.g DOMAINNAME\mwatson
  
  (3) Add user to Reporting Services:
  (3.1) Right-click project and select "Show Project Portal".
  (3.2) Click "Reports".
  (3.3) Click "Home".
  (3.4) Click "Properties".
  (3.5) Click "New Role Assignment"
  (3.6) Add the new user(s), select their role(s) and click OK.
        Note: User names include the domain, e.g DOMAINNAME\mwatson
  
  
  

• keeptell

  I have the same issue, have you resolved it
  

• flo ben

  There may be something halfway down this web page about it:
  
  http://www.amaxo.com/blog/archives/2005/04/simplify_author.html
  
  
  

• Cockgle

  It seems my "red cross"-issue on documents folder is a client issue only.
  
  On my PC I can’t see the documents folder but on the PC of my colleagues they can see the folder without problems (they have the same security settings on the server like me).
  The only difference is that I had installed and tested TFS-Beta 3 before and I tested Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and Release Candidate on my machine too. May there is something corrupt now.
  
  So I think it must have something to do which some settings on my PC which prevents the team explorer to show the documents-folder properly.
  (I cleaned the folder
  %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Tea
  m Foundation\1.0\Cache before I start to install the beta3-refresh-client on my computer)
  
  Are there other places which I can clean (registry, file system) before I start to install
  
  

• Loderian

  Hi Matthew,
  
  I think my server settings are the same like on the posted link.
  I am able to create projects on the server and on my clients.
  
  Hi Dan,
  I verfified the settings in "RegProxyFileCache.xml" on my client-pc:
        <ServiceInterface>
          <Name>BaseSiteUrl</Name>
          <Url>http://PNSERVER4/sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
        <ServiceInterface>
          <Name>BaseSiteUnc</Name>
          <Url>\\PNSERVER4\sites</Url>
        </ServiceInterface>
  
  PNSERVER4 is the correct name of the server.
  
  Best regards,
  Johannes
  
  

• steve_adz

  Did you manage to cleanly install your client, and verify that this was your problem
  
  You could try clearing the client side cache (See 3.1 in the link below): http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/tfsknownissues.aspx#TeamExplorer
  
  and run "devenv /resetuserdata"
  
  Thanks,
  
  

• TonyM4

  I have still the issue wit the red cross on "documents" folder on my machine.
  There are no news on how to fix this
  
  
  
  
• Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder