I'm trying to get the same user stories to show up in different boards within the same project. I checked the mapping and everything seems to be ok so I'm not sure what the issue is. Anyone have any suggestions on what to check?
Thanks.
I'm trying to get the same user stories to show up in different boards within the same project.
Azure boards are divided by team and work items are allocated based the Area Path of the team.
To see the same work items in different boards, you could try the following steps.
Step1: Navigate to Project Settings -> Team configuration . Select target teams and check if the teams have the same area path.
Step2: Open the work item that needs to be shared between Boards. Set the area path as the shared area path.
Then you could view the same User Stories in different boards.
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I just created a list of work items, under a project in Azure DevOps: 1 epic and 3 features (these 3 are child linked to the epic).
But when I go to the backlogs to see these items, they are not shown. I get the following message:
I tried a couple of solutions that I found on the web, but they do not work.
Please help me to figure out why these are not being shown in the backlog... (of course I'm new at Azure DevOps).
Thanks!
From the screenshot, I can see that only epic and feature:
You need to select epic or feature type in this place:
Create Tasks under the User Story.
Epic ---> Features---> User Story --->Tasks. So then in the backlog top right corner when you select Epic, Features, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the Feature, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the User Story, Tasks will appear.
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I found the answer by going through the different buttons on the screen:
Go to Configure Team Settings (when selected a box will be displayed)
Be sure that in the Backlog section all items are selected (in my case they weren´t)
Be sure that all of the work items in different levels are shown by clicking on the + symbol. (the - symbol will hide them).
And that is it!
Since the process of one A/B test usually takes multiple sprints I would like to add another board in which I can add the A/B tests (as F.E. features). User stories for one sprint can then be added to a specific sprint for my team (which consists of a few specialists and a developer). This way I am able to overview the status (research phase, test , code writing, running, analysis, etc.) of all tests in one overview. I have not been able to find out how this is possiblie within Azure Devops, or if there is a work around. Can anyone help me?
My team also works in projects other than A/B tests, which means we cannot use the boards section.
Unless there is a hidden way to add another board to a team?
You could Copy or clone a work item to add the user stories or tests to a new boards. Open the user story you want to clone, then click Create copy of work item and choose whether to include exist links, attachments and child work items. After creating, change the Area and Iteration to your target boards.
Update
In Azure DevOps you can only create boards by creating a team. The team board is created as a side-effect of creating the team. Please refer to Manage and configure team tools and Configure and customize Azure Boardsfor details.
After creating and configuring a new team, you could see the boards in the dropdown list.
I set up my first AzureDevops organisation by starting with the Agile process but later changed it to CMMI for the organisation to better align with the other projects my team works on. I think this is where the cause of the problem is but can't figure out how to address it.
PROBLEM:
I cannot see in the backlogs any of the Epics I created. The Epic selector in the dropdown menu of the backlog navigation is present and selected. Some of the Features can be seen in the Features backlog, however, not all.
WHAT I TRIED TO DO:
I created a query from the Epics backlog and tried changing its filters and got to see all the epics if I change the filter from having several OR statements on the Area Path filter to one with Area Path Under "top level area path".
I am 100% sure this is because I changed the process. Would appreciate if someone could please let me know some troubleshooting steps to address the issue?
Thank you
I'm trying to create a team that can only see a subset of the boards (e.g. their own area), which is to act as a communication channel between the development teams and other users; meaning, the developers can see/interact with all boards, but the external team can only see/interact with one specific board. But it seems that any team created gets access to the main board no matter what.
Has anyone attempted this before?
You need to configure the area security setting for the team.
Go to Project settings-->Project configuration under Boards-->Areas-->Select the Area which you donot want the team to view-->Click the 3dots-->Security See below screenshot.
In the security setting page-->Search the Team in the search box-->Deny the view and edit permission of this node for this team. See below screenshot.
Repeat above steps to deny the view and edit permissions for other team areas which the newly created team should not gets access to. Then the newly created team should only be able to access to the Team board which he have the view permission.
Within Azure DevOps Server, is there a way to limit the work items that can be tied to a given pull request to only those in the current project? Currently, when submitting a pull request Azure DevOps Server suggests and allows all work items within the project collection to be selected.
Yes there is a way to limit the work items from another project to be selected in current project. You can change the View, create, or modify work items Permissions within an area path. Check Restrict access to view or modify objects
So Let's say there are Project A and B. And Restrict work items in Project B to be selected from Project A. In order to achieve this, you need to set the permissions from Project B. Please refer to below steps:
1,Go the Project setting for Project B --> Click Project configuration under Boards --> Click Areas -->Click the 3dots of the root Areas of Project B --> Click Security
2, In the Search Box search for Project A team(or any team that includes all the users in Project A, if there isnot one, you can create a team in project A to include all the users.). Then set the permission to View work items in this node to Deny.
Then any user in Project A team willnot be able to add the workitems from Project B in a pull request.
Above steps will cause some problem if a user is also in other project team. But you can override the inherited permission for this user by following step 1 to allow the the view permission for this user.
If there are many projects in your collection, you have to set repeat setting above permission for each one of them.
However you can submit a feature request(click suggest a feature and choose Azure devops) that restricting view workitems permission in a Project Level to Microsoft Development team. Hope they will consider implementing this feature.