As the image shows, for each task that is created in my backlog, devops generates an Id for each task. In my implantation studies, the Id grew and now that I'm going to implant it, I would need it to start from 1 and not based on my last one. How do I do a reset?
I would need it to start from 1 and not based on my last one. How do I
do a reset?
Sorry but we can't reset WIT ID. There's no option in Azure Devops supports the reset of Work Item ID.
Please check this: Each work item is based on a work item type and is assigned an identifier which is unique within an organization(Service) or project collection(Server).
Azure Devops Service doesn't re-use unique identifier, because that makes nasty problems to troubleshoot. So the ID won't be reset even after we delete all the work Items and Projects in Organization.
Just as DevOpsy suggests, you should create one new organization for your final usage. And then the WIT ID will start at 1.
Similar discussions about WIT ID number see here and here. Hope it helps to resolve your puzzle and provides correct direction :)
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I've been trying to migrate some BUs and their default teams from our dev environment to a higher environment and keep the default teams' GUIDs the same in both envs but have not been successful. I tried changing the order I deploy them, ie tried deploying BUs before and after teams but it made no difference. The problem is when I deploy a BU, the system automatically creates a default team which I cannot delete or rename or even make non-default so that I could make the teams I want (with the same GUID) as default. Also I've tried different tools such as SDK's DataMigrationUtility and XrmToolBox's Data Transporter but the outcome is the same, i.e. I cannot get rid of the default team.
I would appreciate any advice on how to do this.
Thanks in advance
Default Teams for BU are created by system automatically and you cannot transfer them or create them or unassigned them.
Same is the case with default queue for Team (owner Team) you cannot create them, transfer them and unassigned them.
You could definitely transfer Teams (which are not default teams) but unfortunately the one you are trying is not possible.
I've been looking at organisation and project settings but I can't see a setting that would prevent users from creating work items in an Azure DevOps project.
I have a number of users who refuse to follow the guidelines we set out for our projects so I'd like to inconvenience them and the wider project team so that they find it better to follow the guidelines than not - at the moment we've got one-word user stories and/or tasks with estimates of 60-70 hours which isn't reflective of the way that we should be planning.
I'd still want them to be able to edit the stories or tasks and moving statuses, but that initial creation should be off-limits for them (for a time at least). Is there a way to do this??
The Azure DevOps Aggregator project allows you to write simple scripts that get triggered when a work item is created or updated. It uses a service hook to trigger when such an event occurs and abstracts most of the API specific stuff away, providing you with an instance of the work item to directly interact with.
You can't block the creation or update from, such a policy, Azure DevOps will inform the aggregator too late in the creation process to do so, but you can revert changes, close the work item etc. There are also a few utility functions to send email.
You need to install the aggregator somewhere, it can be hosted in Azure Functions and we provide a docker container you can spin up anywhere you want. Then link it to Azure DevOps using a PAT token with sufficient permissions and write your first policy.
A few sample rules can be found in the aggregator docs.
store.DeleteWorkItem(self);
should put the work item in the Recycle Bin in Azure DevOps. You can create a code snippet around it that checks the creator of the work item (self.CreatedBy.Id) against a list of known bad identities.
Be mindful that when Azure DevOps creates a new work item the Created and Updated event may fire in rapid succession (this is caused by the mechanism that sets the backlog order on work items), so you may need to find a way to detect what metadata tells you a work item should be deleted. I generally check for a low Revision number (like, < 5) and the last few revisions didn't change any field other than Backlog Priority.
I'd still want them to be able to edit the stories or tasks and moving statuses, but that initial creation should be off-limits for them (for a time at least). Is there a way to do this??
I am afraid there is no such out of setting to do this.
That because the current permission settings for the workitem have not yet been subdivided to apply to the current scenario.
There is a setting about this is that:
Project Settings->Team configuration->Area->Security:
Set this value to Deny, it will prevent users from creating new work items. But it also prevent users from modify the workitem.
For your request, you could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions.
I am in need of getting some automation metrics like, what are the test cases automated in a specific time period in ADS. I tried the below query.
The challenge with this query is: it is retrieving the automated test cases which were automated before this duration. It is because their other attributes are changed like: Title, some tags etc. I was looking for some field that stores the information like(Automated Test Id, Automated Test Name, Automated Test Storage, Automation status). But I didnt' see this. I tried to use "History" field, but that didn't work as it is not populated the automation information in history field.
Any thoughts please?
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How to get sprint wise automated test cases in Azure devops system?
At this moment, we could not query the History with State changed from one state to another state on Web UI directly.
As workaround, we could add a custom field in our custom process that gets set the value to true when workitems state change from X to Y.
Then add a Rules to set the value of the custom field to True if the workitems state change from X to Y.
Finally, we could query the workitems with custom field status.
You could check this thread for some more details.
Besides, you can also try do it through PowerBI. Calculate time-in-state for an existing Analytics view.
Feature cycle time is a very important metric, but in ADO there doesn't seem to be a way to get the State of a Feature to automatically update when the first story moves into Active (or the last child is closed). Does anyone know of a way to have this happen?
No, that will never happen. This area for custom application and solutions. You can try the following:
TFS Aggregator
Write your own solution through rest api: Automation of state changing for Azure DevOps work items based on states of child work items
Use additional solutions: Automation of state changing with Azure Logic App
When I try to add new completed state to user story or task in inherited process of my azure devops project, I get the following error :
VS403093: Team Services currently does not support changes to
'Completed' category. Choose a different category.
I have looked all over the web and it seems like this is the desired behaviour as mentioned in this link, which I think is very weird.
Are there any workarounds?
I want to create a Done state for my work items, and I think that it's dumb to keep only the closed state for all completed work items since Completed fits better with tickets not with user stories in my sense...
As mentioned below, I could modify all the states except for completed
Any help would be appreciated.
Like you said, at this time Microsoft not allow to change or add states in Complete category.
From Microsoft Docs:
Completed: Assigned to states that represent work has finished. work items whose state is in this category don't appear on the backlog and do appear in the last column of the Kanban board. Note that you can't modify states in this category nor can you add states to this category.
If you want the state "Done" you can use Scrum template (in Scrum the complete state is Done and not Closed).