we just started with Azure DevOps to visualize our Backlog and our Sprints. Before we worked with Youtrack. We tried to change in the columns of the Sprint Taskboard the sum of effort into Story Points. Any suggestion, how we can solve this?
We changed the process to scrum
We searched in the processes under organisation settings and created an own scrum process
We created custom tasks for Sprint Taskboards called "User Stories"
We added the field for Story Points to the cards
Meanwhile, I sent a ticket to Microsoft and surprise: I got an answer!
The support answered:
Hi Peter,
I am sorry the feature to show the sum of story points in the column-headers of a sprint taskboard is not available, but as per the discussion at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/365443/display-sum-of-story-points-in-a-sprint-agile-temp.html the product group is looking at implementing the feature.
Please follow the above link to get the latest update on the feature.
Is the effort group you want to replace referring to Remaining work field?
In scrum process , it shows like this :
In agile process , it shows like this :
Of course, the name and field are all customizable. If this refers to the remaining work field, you want to replace this with story points. According to your information, we can know that you have added Story Points field to the cards. Then what you need is not display the remaining work field , you can set it up in settings.
If I misunderstood ，please point out and i will edit this answer.
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I am trying to get the percentage of completion of a feature based on the child work items related to the feature.
I am very new to azure devops and I have no idea where to start.
For example if I have feature with 5 related child work items, as each work item is closed, I want the percentage of items closed to be captured on the feature
Is there a way to get this?
You need to create a rollup column to see the progress bar and count of your feature.
Please refer mentioned link for more details. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/track-the-progress-of-work-using-rollup-columns/
In the board view, the top of the column shows a number of work items in each column. I'd prefer that it instead show the sum of the story points of the work items in that column. Barring that, I'm looking for the dead-simplest report/view/whatever that will show me the number of story points in each column of my grid.
Just switched from JIRA to Azure Devops and am feeling like this is a product that has too much complexity everywhere it isn't needed and not enough functionality for basic Agile usage. Any tips for making the changeover more pleasant/getting JIRA-like behavior out of Azure Devops into the bargain would be appreciated.
For this issue , you can create a query that filters for User Story as the work item type and modify the column options to show Story Points and State.
Then, add a stacked bar chart that sums the Story Points.
For details ,please refer to this official document.
I want to pin a chart to the Azure DevOps Services dashboard that shows how many bugs in the current sprint have a linked test case or not.
I have been able to put up a query for the same but it appears that such queries can't be charted out. Is there an alternate way?
Here's the error that I get while creating a chart out of my query
Additionally, I would also like to know if there is a way to ensure that when I Resolve/Close a bug workitem in AzDo services, I can check if there is at least one associated test case work item with the bug. I have explored Bug rules but can't find out a clean way to get the link types associated with the work item. How can I achieve this?
Thanks
I have been able to put up a query for the same but it appears that
such queries can't be charted out. Is there an alternate way?
As for the error you got, it's one open issue here in our feedback forum, the product team is considering about it. But there might be some time before the feature comes true. You can track the issue to get notifications if there's any update. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Is there an alternate way?
If you just need a widget to display the results of the query, you can consider using Query Results widget, if supports tree or direct links. But if you do want the pie chart for WITs, I afraid it's not supported for now when using tree or direct links. You can check the related extensions here.
I have explored Bug rules but can't find out a clean way to get the
link types associated with the work item. How can I achieve this?
As I know we don't have such option in Azure Devops Boards.
If we close/delete one workItem, it won't display a prompt or what that tells us the related workItems are still active.
But I think that would be a great idea, so I suggest you can post one feature request here to share your idea to product team. Then we can share the feature request link here and people who interested in that would vote for you! Hope all above make some help :)
I am working through creating a custom process in Azure DevOps and was curious if field values from parent can be shared with child items.
Here is an example:
Create field 'Custom Field 9' on Epic work type
Create the same field 'Custom Field 9' on Product Backlog Item work type
Create an epic and fill in the value of 'Custom Field 9'
Create a child Product Backlog Item, 'Custom Field 9' is then inherited to the backlog items field.
What I've tried so far is to use a rule on either Epic or Product Backlog Item, however, I do not believe the rules can apply to creation of children processes.
One other option I'm going to try later today is a Flow that detects when a child work item is created and perform it automatically. I'd like to try to keep this contained to Azure DevOps if possible.
Edit: Thought it helpful to mention that we are using the hosted solution of DevOps and nothing on premise.
Sorry to say that as default, there does not such a work item features with "out of the box". But you can use another tool to achieve this.
Like you said, Microsoft Flow, there does not such feature supported while connect with Azure Devops.
But, in addiiton, I think you can do this with writing some custom scripts. And then configure Web hook to trigger this custom events.
Also, here has another tool named TFS Aggregator (Web Service) to achieve what you want. You can set and configure apply certain rules (such as copying fields from a parent item to a child item). And it will trigger after a work item is created or saved.
I know this is very inconvenient, here has an same feature suggest which raised by others. They has the same demand with you. You can vote and comment for this suggestion. When there are enough communities vote and add comments for this feedback, the product team member will take this feedback seriously.
I needed this feature as well, but in it's absence I have got it to work (relatively easily) with an Azure Logic App (for anyone also using Azure)
Trigger
When a work item is created
Then
Get work item details using "Parent" as the work item ID to search for
Finally
Update the new work item with any field from the parent you require
I can't figure out if it possible and how it can be done to allow certain users in a Visual Studio Team Services project to see only the work items they created, instead of them all.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
For now, there is no ways to set permissions for a user to only view work items which were created by oneself.
It's only available to set permission based on Iterations and Areas for now.
But there has an user voice field level security permissions which suggest similar feature, you can vote and follow up.
And the features in below two user voices have already added in our backlog, when the features are archeived, it can also benefit the situation you met:
Hide Work Item Types (WITs) based on permission/security group
Add ability to hide/mask fields in a work item based on security/permissions
This is not supported. It used to be in the on-prem product a long time ago in the "Work item only view", but that has been removed in favour of the Stakeholder view.