How do I trigger builds by specific users and VCS roots on TeamCity?

Question

I tried filtering by user, where domain\user is the username as it appears in TFS. However, this resulted in no builds triggering at all.

+:user=domain\user1  
+:user=domain\user2  

Then I tried this

+:.  
+:user=domain\user1  
+:user=domain\user2  

This triggers builds, but on every checkin by every user, which is not my intention. Is there some known bug (which I didn't find) or am I doing something wrong? I used VS solution builder for this configuration.

Answer 1

First thing, the rule you added to the top of your list is going to add all users +:.. I was able to add a build trigger filter for my TFS repository/configuration like this

+:user=omnyx\anthony.mastrean

I did not try using a VCS root filter, but I imagine it works as specified in the documents. Especially, because it worked so quickly (unlike other TeamCity filters).

If you've gotten the answer from the TeamCity forums, please cross-post it so we don't have to Google for it later.