I use Query Result tiles in my dashboard to help teammates on multiple projects to quickly view the work that is assigned to them. We used to be able to click on a given task to open the detailed description of said task but now it no longer works. The tile only shows the associated user story and is no longer linking to the detailed view screen.
I have checked the queries used (simple work items and direct link query that shows all tasks assigned to a given user and its associated User Story) and reviewed the latest updates to Azure Devops but I can't find any changes that could affect the expected results.
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Is there some kind of an app/widget which helps you track your work items? We have an issue when working on multiple projects, people keep forgetting to set work items as active and DevOps doesn't calculate hours spent on work correctly
Would be useful to see which of my work items are active or paused in one list
Yes, there is a method.
State paused for example.
First, set up a query and save it.
Second, go to the Dashboards of Overview.
After that, just share the Dashboards page to others and everybody of your team can easily know how many work items are in 'paused' state and everyone can easily click in to check what are the work items are in 'paused' state(Do not forget to click 'Done editing' at the end).
By this method, you can manage other states of workitems.
I'm trying to setup azure devops test project and introduce it to our team. So I created test user stories and related tasks. I also created test sprints (10 work days each) starting with 2021-07-19. So far so good. Taskboard contains tasks and user stories, for test purposed I "finished" some work yesterday. Backlog tab seems to be working well, remaining work and work details works as expected too. Capacity tab is filled.
But once I enter Analytics tab with burndown trend it seems to be empty. No task nor user stories. Did I miss something? I tried all tutorials and all seems to be set correctly. See pictures below.
Do you have any advice or hints?
Thanks!
EDIT: Legacy burndown graph in dashboard works fine.
After a while I found solution. My test project contains only user stories and related tasks and thus the structure is obviously User story -> Tasks. However in the project setting -> Boards - Team configuration I left checked also Features checkbox. Based on that setting expected structure is Feature -> User stories -> Tasks which I haven't. So once I unchecked Features checkbox all started to work as expected. I might be useful for others as well.
I can view all features except Release pipelines which is showing empty screen for me as shown below. I have tried different browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, both showing empty screen. I have verified that I have full access permissions and Visual Studio subscription also. Let me know if you ever faced such issue and a solution for this. Thanks.
You could troubleshoot this issue by checking following steps.
Go to Organization Settings>>Users page to check if your access level, make sure that you are not StakeHolder.
Go to this Project Settings>>Permissions>>Users tab to find you, and check which groups that you belong to. Usually members of Contributors group can freely access to releases page.
Check if others in the same group have the same issue, or just you have this issue.
Try this in other computers to check if there are some plugins or extensions which cause this issue.
If you are behind firewall or proxy, please check if the requests are blocked. You could click F12 to check the browser network requests.
BTW, we find that there are service events, which might causes this issue, you could monitor it.
I am currently working on the CI of project and I deploy a preview for each github branch that pass all integration tests.
My CI workflow is executed by CircleCI and I can see the progression on github with Github checks. It works pretty nice but description does not reflect what really happens.
For instance I can see this on github :
My problem is I would like to custom message and details actions link. My last job deploys a preview and I would like to be able to put the link somewhere. The best case should be able to open my preview when I click on details button.
Is there any way to do this ?
I send a mail to CircleCI support and I got this anwser :
Hello,
It is not possible at this time to customize this text. Clicking the
details link will bring you to the job on CircleCI. We are currently
working on a utility that will allow you to post comments to the PR
from within a job that may be close to what you are looking for. This
will exist in an Orb (https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/) but I could
not say exactly how long until this is released, though we are
actively working on it.
You may wish to post to our public facing ideas portal:
https://ideas.circleci.com/ideas as a new idea post. This will let our
community vote for this request. Please let us know if we can assist
any further.
So, unfortunately it is not possible yet. Maybe in the future.
Can I have guidence for TFS 2010 for the following areas:
What is the correct use of tfs and the properties that are exposed for each backlog item and task for recording of effort so that we report on progress using the burndown charts and can assess velocity.
It is not obvious to us what is the appropriate workflow for raising questions about functionality against tasks / user stories so that the person who needs to answer them can easily find those tasks / stories that have outstanding questions. And for when the question is answered how the person(s) who need to know the answer are alerted that the answer is there. Maybe tfs is not the right place to do this and we should be manually doing this?
Unless you customized something, the report features you are asking about will light up in the reports if you use the field in the Task work item named Remaining Work - update it regularly - daily if possible.
The database most of the default reports use (Tfs_Analysis) gets updated every 2 hours by default. Some of the reports only show a daily roll-up so depending on what you are looking for you might not see changes until the day after.
As for your 2nd question about how to communicate about missing information in user stories, etc.. you should read the Process Guidance for the template that was used to create your Team Project. I'm guessing you are using the MSF Agile 5.0 template, so do a search for that and "Process Guidance." The Process Guidance is basically the instructions for how to use the TFS work items and reports, etc... It can be found online (on MSDN) or by right-clicking on your team project in Team Explorer and choosing Process Guidance from the context menu. I'm answering this from my phone but can include a link to it later if you find this helpful.