I have a requirement to change the layout of the Task in Azure DevOps Server 2019. I want to relocate the "Details" section under the "Staus" section. I tried using the Process editor via VS 2019. But doesn't work published WIT show no modifications. Can anyone guide me through this?
Layout change I did:
Additional Note:
I tried following the inherited process model but got stuck. According to this article some links are missing on our DevOps Server 2019. I logged in as the administrator of the DevOps server. Please refer to the screenshot attached.
In Azure DevOps, we do have two process models,On-premises XML process model and Inheritance process model.
For Azure DevOps Server 2019, you have a choice of process models. When you create a project collection, you'll need to choose between On-premises XML process model and Inheritance process model.
Using the Process editor via VS 2019 only apply to On-premises XML process model.
If you are using inherited process, you need to do the customization in web portal directly-- Customize the web layout for a work item type (Inheritance process)
More details about the customization of these two models:
About process customization and inherited processes
On-premises XML process customization
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we upgraded a TFS2017 to Azure Devops Server 2019.
We had a custom XML process template on TFS2017 that we want to migrate to inherited processes. But we cannot see this process template in the process page. We only see the inherited processes (Agile, CMMI, ...) and the basic XML templates which where migrated ("Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013.3", "MSF for Agile Software Development 2013.2", ...)
There is a project with this custom template and we can update the process with WIT commands.
Does anyone know how to make this custom process visible in the process page? then we will be able to migrate it.
I am moving from TFS 2015 to Azure DevOps in the cloud.
Following the migration guide I have done the following:
TFS 2015 -> TFS 2018 -> DevOps 2020.
When running the Migrator tool I am getting an error. The OTB process has errors in them.
If I don't care about the changes made in my process is there a simple way to get to the OTB process?
The Process validation error in TryMatchOobProcesses.log file would block your projects
from landing in the inherited process model(OTB process). But You don't have to fix these errors. They will not prevent you from doing an import. And all your customizations will be imported to Hosted XML process model.
See below extracts from the Process template validation.
If the project was created with the Agile, Scrum, or CMMI process template, and was never customized, the project will use the Inheritance process model. In all other cases, the data migration tool considers the project as customized, and the project will use the Hosted XML process model.
TryMatchOobProcesses.log - Lists for each project the target process model - Inheritance or Hosted XML. For projects that are set to target the Hosted XML process model, it explains why they are considered to be customized. You don't have to fix these errors, but they give you guidance what to do in case you want to migrate into the Inheritance process model
And now DevOps 2020 services supports Moving from Hosted XML Process to Inherited Process. See the below official documents for more information about what you need to pay attention to when moving to Inherited Process.
Clone a Hosted XML process to an Inheritance process
Change a project from Hosted XML to an inherited process
So according to Document and the Migration Guide(Page-33), you can just import the process without fixing the Process validation error in TryMatchOobProcesses.log. After the process is imported to Hosted XML process. Then you can change it to the Inheritance process.
everybody.
We have just successfully migrated from ADServer 2019 to ADServices.
We have a single custom process template that is used for all Team Projects. After migration, each team project has its own Process Template, as expected.
However, as all migrated Process Templates are equal, I would like to group all Team Projects in a single Process Template.
In order to do that, I do these steps:
Go to Organization Settings
Select Process
Click on one of my hosted process templates
Click on "Projects"
Click on "..." and select "Change Process"
A pop up appears, where I can select the target process I like to change. It's important to note that all hosted migrated process seems to be avaliable for the change.
When I select another hosted process, and click "Ok", the message "The feature is disabled. Contact your Azure DevOps Server administrator." appears and the change can't be done.
I have been looking how to enable this feature with no success.
Has anyone had this situation?
If is not possible to do that, is there any way to import the future changes of my process template via command line, in order to update all my team projects ?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Regards,
Alba
We evaluated this situation with MS and the answer is that there is no way to make this change of process template between team projects belonging to different hosted process template, even though the process templates are equals.
As we cannot change our Process Template to hosted process by now, our solution was making a script using AD api, in order to make a bulk update of all process templates for all our team projects.
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/processadmin/processes/import%20process%20template?view=azure-devops-rest-6.1
From the screenshot, you were trying to change the process used by the team project from a hosted xml to an inherited process. For your scenario, you need to
cloned your Hosted XML process to an inherited process.
Change a project from Hosted XML to an inherited process.
An useful blog for your reference:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/moving-from-hosted-xml-process-to-inherited-process-ga/
I am following along the tutorial with SmartHotel360 and trying to set it up. In the README.md, it says 'In VSTS, navigate to Services by clicking on the gear icon...' and this is to create a new service endpoint. Where is this done? What is VSTS? Visual Studio Team Server? Do I first make a branch of the SmartHotel360 and open this in Visual Studio? What if I am using one email account to access the code where the tasks are assigned and another email to complete the courses? Does this make a difference?
I guess my question is, where is this VSTS? Is this where I view the SmartHotel360 code?
Azure DevOps Services was formerly named Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) -- rebranded as Azure DevOps in 2018. So the tutorial you followed should be before 2018.
The github README.md about SmartHotel360(like this) are retired, archived, and no longer supported. For the latest sample references please visit: https://aka.ms/tailwindtraders & https://aka.ms/rpsls
To interact with Azure, you'll need to create a Service Endpoint in Azure DevOps. This endpoint includes the authentication information required to deploy to Azure. This document gives a guide to configure Service Endpoint in Azure DevOps, please refer to it.
I am doing some research for Powerapps integration with Azure DevOps.
However there is limitated information for it.
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
Based on, that we have a .zip file with the Powerapp, and we want to create a Build and Release/Deploy for several environments.
Thank You.
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
Yes it is.
You can leverage the Solution concept of the Microsoft Power Platform and the Power Apps BuildTools (preview) extension for Azure DevOps.
Update 11/2020: This is now GA and called Power Platform Build Tools
I've written a complete step-by-step guide on this topic:
A Continuous Delivery Approach for No-Code Solutions in Microsoft’s Power Platform
Bottom line:
With this build tool, you can automatically check-in a Solution into source control and deploy it using a continuous delivery approach with the help of Azure DevOps. See the screenshot for a sample configuration of the Export and Import Solution Task.
It works for everything you can organize inside a Solution, e.g.:
Power Apps
Power Automate Flows
AI Builder Models
Common Data Service Entities
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
I am afraid there is no such Task integrate powerapps for AzureDevops at this moment.
If you want to integrate powerapps with azure devops, you can follow the guide step by step:
Microsoft Teams – Integration with Visual Studio Team Services using PowerApps.
Besides, AFAIK, PowerApps should not be "Build/Deployed" through Azure Devops.
When you are developing with PowerApps, there is no way to do Source
Control. There are no source files. The only artifact you can version
control is the .zip file that you can export.
And
In PowerApps, you don’t have to build your code. Any change you make
to the application is live for you to test it. In that way it is very
productive. To publish the application you just click on the publish
button and it is live.
Check this great blog: PowerApps From A DevOps Perspective for some more details.
Hope this helps.
Solutions are a way to package your components in a single zip file and use Powerapps build tools to import your solution on to a different environment or tenant.
It is still a an improvement from manually importing each app or environment variable and then import it on to target system, but it lacks what we call as automation of deployment.
To provide an eg, I will explain what I have done, and what still constitutes of a manual task:
I created an enterprise level app using powerapp canvas model. My app consumes data from around 20 APIs. These API calls are implemented in power automate.
We have 4 environments, dev, sit, uat and prod. Now I cant keep on importing flows in each environment and change their api URLs to point to the deployed environment. So I used environment variables for each environment which stores api URLs for each environment. This can be done under solution.
Under the same solution, I added my app. So now my solution has 2 things, my app and the environment variable which consists of api URLs.
I then use powerapps build tools to move this solution from dev to sit.
Steps: use build tools tasks to perform the following
Export solution
Unpack it in git
Pack it
Import the solution.
This successfully moves my solution to sit.
But the solution environment variable still points to the dev url.
So I have to override environment variables to store sit URLs.
This manual intervention to edit environment variable is as good as doing all the tasks manually.
This was the case when PowerApps was first announced; however, this is no longer the case.
While it is technically true that there is no actual code that would be managed and deployed with a PowerApp or Flow but that doesn't mean that you can not use the power of Azure DevOps. Additionally, when creating a PowerApp / flow you would also be creating entities and even Model Driven apps - and these uses solutions - which naturally work well to deplooy within Azure DevOps.
Microsoft is building out this whole construct to enable all these to deploy...
While the whole incorporation of PowerApps and flows into Solutions is not fully baked yet - they are targeting to have this ready around the October time frame this year.
We have been talking to Microsoft about also enabling PowerApps and flows to follow the same expansion that solutions do so that they can take advantage of the full branching strategy.
So even though you would be simply exporting out zip files into your repo - you can still take advantage of the full devops pipeline which is highly recommended.
Use this component, it still on preview mode but is working fine on my side
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=microsoft-IsvExpTools.PowerApps-BuildTools