I can view all features except Release pipelines which is showing empty screen for me as shown below. I have tried different browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, both showing empty screen. I have verified that I have full access permissions and Visual Studio subscription also. Let me know if you ever faced such issue and a solution for this. Thanks.
You could troubleshoot this issue by checking following steps.
Go to Organization Settings>>Users page to check if your access level, make sure that you are not StakeHolder.
Go to this Project Settings>>Permissions>>Users tab to find you, and check which groups that you belong to. Usually members of Contributors group can freely access to releases page.
Check if others in the same group have the same issue, or just you have this issue.
Try this in other computers to check if there are some plugins or extensions which cause this issue.
If you are behind firewall or proxy, please check if the requests are blocked. You could click F12 to check the browser network requests.
BTW, we find that there are service events, which might causes this issue, you could monitor it.
Added many extensions from a marketplace such as Calendar and it is visible under Boards on the left pane. However, how do I sort them when there are many extensions added to my Boards?
Unfortunately, we are not able to change the order of any installed extension or build-in feature with boards under web portal UI.
You could submit a feature request in our official link.
Beside, not all extensions are installed in this specific place(actually only a little), it's based on the developer of the extension. You could check more detail info from here-- Develop a web extension for Azure DevOps Services
Not every extension adds a custom work hub as Calendar does. In fact, I suspect only a few of them do. Other extensions enrich other areas with new functionality. Often only build tasks are brought in.
There's definitely no filter option under the Boards hub. If there are plenty of custom work hubs, you'll have to scroll through those.
On the other hand, the Manage Extensions view has a nice and convenient Filter option:
I've added a few comments on issues that bothers me in a few repositories. I'd like to search for them. Is it possible to find them using github web ui ?
Click on the top right bell icon (notifications), then go to the tab Subscriptions. You should be able to find your stuff there.
I have seen the boards hub in several videos on how to use VSTS. It is a preview feature and shows up right between "Work Items" and "Back Logs".
I have opted in on all the preview feature but cannot get it to show up.
here is a spot in a video talking about it:
https://youtu.be/16gOTI_OBw8?t=141
Here is what my opt in features shows:
What am I missing??
This feature is not available for now. And it will be available in the near future.
Details, you can find in Features under development:
You don't have access to the preview feature yet. For what it's worth, neither do I.
It's possible that the ability to opt-in hasn't rolled out to every account yet (including ours), or even that it hasn't rolled out to any non-internal Microsoft accounts.
Is there a way I can make Jira ticket id's on Github link to Jira? (much the same way as how it happens on Bitbucket).
Maybe there is a plugin or something I could use ?
EDIT:
I specifically want ticket id's in Github to link through to Jira, this is not described in any of the resources below:
How do I connect github to JIRA?
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Linking+Bitbucket+and+GitHub+accounts+to+JIRA
https://help.github.com/articles/integrating-jira-with-your-projects/
Update 2022:
Dusan Plavak mentions in the comments that, as of today (Q1 2022), you can also import / automate creation of autolinks via github api.
You can also use gh api:
gh api repos/octocat/hello-world/autolinks \
-f -q 'key_prefix:key_prefix url_template:url_template'
And since July 2022, you also have autolinks with alphanumeric IDs (for instance for a Trello card URL: https://trello.com/c/3eZr2Bxw).
2019: No need for Chrome plugin, Safari hack or scripts.
From October 2019, GitHub can automatically transform TICKET references to Jira links, for example.
See "Save time linking resources with autolink references" from Lars Schneider.
Now you can set up an autolink reference and GitHub will automatically create links (to external systems) for you.
How it works
If you use GitHub with external services (like Jira), you might be familiar with shorthand references (like TICKET-123) to point to resources in those external systems.
Starting today, GitHub can automatically transform shorthand references into clickable links for GitHub Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans.
So not the regular github.com.
To enable this feature, a repository admin needs to register the reference prefix (such as TICKET-) in the settings.
Afterwards, references of that type are detected in issues, pull requests, comments, or commit messages, and turned into links.
This speeds up navigation between GitHub and external systems.
See documentation.
Note that the ticket prefix is not included in the hyperlink despite being included in the anchor text. The URL preview in the setting is accurate:
The animation in the feature announcement, replicated above, shows this limitation but not clearly.
This means that you have to either include the project key in the target URL as well or prefix all project keys with a another key and use that as the autolink prefix.
You cannot even use Git's trailers to reference tickets and use autolinks, because trailers are key-value pairs separated by : (colon space) and an autolink prefix that ends with a space is invalid.
I decided to make a Chrome extension for this ! This extension works on all websites, not just Jira ! :D
Install it here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-hotlinker/lbifpcpomdegljfpfhgfcjdabbeallhk
Source code:
https://github.com/helmus/Jira-Hot-Linker
If you mean the commit message for commit e0d9e32 shows TEST-1234 Fixed this really bad bug and you want TEST-1234 to link to http://www.your-jira.com/browse/TEST-1234 then no it does not look like this is possible.
You could look to do a Chrome/Firefox browser plugin that accomplishes the behavior you desire. (Scans the webpage looking in certain sections for JIRA Key's and then updates them to links)
I wrote a site specific Safari hack. It requires you to install it yourself, but that gives you the opportunity to read the code (it's short!) first. https://github.com/unicode-org/icu-jira-safari
it fetches elements of class commit, gh-header-title, and js-issue-row with getElementsByClassName()
then, for anything such as ICU-1234 (our Jira project id), it creates a link to the appropriate URL on the Jira server.
I wanted to include Jira issue status as well, but Atlassian Cloud CORS settings prevent that.
Here is an example if the linkification (ICU-10464 turns into a link on the right hand side).
Someone made exactly what I wanted coming from gitlab.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkify-jira-issues/ekbbnaokafbanjgmcbllligemhiclbcb
This updates the text in my github PRs to convert them in clickable links.
I made a super simple Chrome extension for this. It simply adds a link to the relevant JIRA ticket on your Github pull request page in a non-obtrusive way (See screenshot below)
Install it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-to-jira/dhnagjladcclacjnccpnibdmkljidnhl?hl=en-GB
Source code here: https://github.com/mfalade/github-to-jira
While Github Autolink is an awesome solution, this is easier to use for the following reasons.
You don't need to provide a description with ticket number for this to work. It automatically derives ticket number from your branch name.
You don't have to configure anything on the Github admin page. Perfect for users who don't have admin privileges
You can work on multiple projects or teams more easily. Supports multiple ticket prefixes.
This extension works for all project management tools you might want to link to