In my Azure boards, I have a hierarchical structure of the areas. In the team settings, all teams have areas being set, just like described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/plans/safe-configure-boards?view=azure-devops#configure-area-paths
Is there a way for one team to see only the area it is set to, but no other areas? Currently, in Boards>Work items any member of any team can see everything, even User stories that do not belong to his area. How can I restrict this?
Edit: it might be from Security options of an area, add a group to it and make work items invisible, see this screenshot from Azure documentation.
But, even as an admin, I don't have such option to add! Why is that?
The UI has changed. There is no add option in the security settings page now.
You can directly search for the Team Group in the Search box and change its permission settings. See below screenshot.
Okay, in addition to Levi's answer:
First, every new user added to a project is also added by default to one of this project's groups: Contributors, Readers, Admins. I'm not considering admins here.
If we want to make one area visible to only one team, we need to do the following:
Either modify Contributors or Readers rights so that the "View project-level information" is set to Deny, and then for each new user, add it to a team and for that team set this option to Allow for the area needed
or (better)
Create our own groups for which "View project-level information" is set to Deny (for ex. Developers, QAs, etc.), and then for each new user, remove it from Contributors or Readers and add it to the corresponding group. Then add the user to a team, and for that team set the "View project-level information" option to Allow for the area needed
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I am trying to understand the complete purpose of organisations in ADO. What I have understood is that an organisation groups projects, defines resources, extensions, billing, etc. that is related to the organization.
I am struggling with the user part of an organization. I can add users to an org giving them an access level. But I can also add users directly to a project without adding them to an organization at all.
What is then the consequence of this? Is then access level by default stakeholder for those users?
Thank you
You can add people to projects instead of to your organization. Users
are automatically assigned Basic features if your organization has
seats available, or Stakeholder features if not.
For this please refer to the Note of this document.
When you add members to projects and you don't have billing set up, Basic access is automatically assigned, until you run out of seats available. When you add members to projects and you do have billing set up, Basic access is assigned only if your default access level is set to Basic. Otherwise, project members are assigned Stakeholder permissions.
You can refer to Add members to projects or teams for details.
If you add an user to a project that user will be added to the organisation as well. At least when the said user first logs in. The user will get the access level you define as default.
I am trying to edit my branch security policies, but nothing ever seems to save. I've tried editing permissions, adding groups, removing groups and nothing seems to happen.
Is there supposed to be save button? This interface is new and appears not to be working.
I am an admin on this Azure account.
To the above question you posted in comment, here is the answer for that:
The groups listed below are inbuilt groups. You will not be able to delete those inbuilt groups.
And if you would like to add any groups, you would need to first create that group in Project Settings and then come back to Branch Security and Add that group here :
Go to Project Settings --> Security --> Create Group
Once you Create the group, go back to Repos --> Branches --> Branch Security --> Click on Add Group and search for the group you created earlier.
You should be able to delete the groups that you have created, But keep one thing in mind that if you delete a group that you created all the users in the group will loose permissions as well.
Yes this is a New UI and it is automatic save when you change the permissions.
Have you tried changing the selection in the dropdown and see if it works?
Once you change the selection in dropdown there will be an indication that the value is changed.
There is no Save Button in the new UI.
The Green tick indicates that the value is changed.
Please take a look at the screenshot below.
Currently users are members of the Project Administrators group.
Is that the minimum group membership required to add new User Stories and Bugs to the Boards interface?
Update
Area path permissions let you grant or restrict access to edit or modify work items, test cases, or test plans assigned to those areas. You can restrict access to users or groups. You can also set permissions for who can add or modify areas or iterations for the project.
You define both areas and iterations for a project from the Project Settings>Work>Project configuration.
1) Choose (1) Project Settings, expand Work if needed, and choose (2) Project configuration and then (3) Areas.
2) Choose the ... context menu for the node you want to manage and select Security.
More details please take a look our official link.
This is not only based on which group you are in.
Note:
Limitations to select features are based on the access level and
security group to which a user is assigned. The Basic access level and
higher supports full access to all Azure Boards features. Stakeholder
access level provides parti
So to add new User Stories and Bugs on the board, you need to meet both permissions and access for Azure Boards.
For Permission:
Boards present work items as cards and support quick status updates through drag-and-drop.
You could also use single permission to restrict users with Agile Boards. For if you want a simply solution, you could add them to Contributors Group directly.
Note: According to Azure DevOps permission setting, most groups and almost all permissions, Deny trumps Allow. If a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to Deny, that user will not be able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to Allow.
For Access Level:
Agile boards
Includes limited access to Kanban boards. Stakeholders can't add work items, can't drag-and-drop work items to update status, and can't update fields displayed on cards.
Conclusion: The minimum should be Contributors Group and Basic Access Level
No, the Contributors permissions it's enough:
More info about the board/work items permissions you can find here.
Is it possible to customize columns in Azure DevOps --> Organization Settings --> Users page. Currently we have Name, Extensions, Access Level, Last Access. I need to add another column to show whether the user have code read-only access or contributor access.
This page can't be customized as fas as i know. What you want can't be displayed on that site if you have more then one project anyway. If you want to see this organizationwide a better way would be to organize the users in "Organization settings -> Permissions" in groups for readers and contributors
I need to transfer a repository from a user account to an organization the user is a member of. Per GitHUb's docs, I need to make the user account an admin of the organization first.
GitHub's docs describe the different levels of access to an organization, but I can't find out how to actually change a user's level of access to an organisation.
How can I make the organization member an admin?
Access levels in GitHub are configured per Team inside the Organization.
Log into GitHub.
Switch your account context to the organization using the dropdown near the top-left of the screen:
Click on "View organization":
Click the Teams tab in the top navigation bar:
Decide whether you want to change the permissions of an existing team (and all of its members) or to create a new team for a single user.
If you are modifying an existing Team,
click on the Team name,
then click the gear icon at the top right,
then change the Team's access to Admin and
click Update.
If you are creating a new Team,
click the New Team button,
give the Team an appropriate name,
set its access to Admin and
click Create Team.
Team memberships have somewhat limited permissions scopes to individually named repositories.
If you want to set someone as an admin for the entire organization:
Navigate to the Organization > People
Identify the member you want to update and click on the settings cog
Set role to Owner
Update 2022: GitHub entitlements can help you define an IAM (Identity and Access Management) complete with audits.
2017: Note that since June 2017, you can apply an Admin access right to a sub-team (instead of one giant unique team as before)
See "Nested teams add depth to your team structure":
Child teams inherit their parent's access permissions, so repository permissions and #mentioning among nested teams work from top to bottom.
If your team structure is Employees > Engineering > Application Engineering > Identity, granting Engineering write access to a repository means Application Engineering and Identity also get that access.
So that is another way to assign a user admin right: make him/her part of a sub-sub team called "admins" within an organization.
Official GitHub Documentation: Nested Teams.