As a DevOps administrator I want to give restricted access to the backlog of our project to a user.
I want to limit his access. Meaning that the user can only see Work Items he has created in the backlog, nothing else.
Is their a way of doing this?
the user can only see Work Items he has created in the backlog,
nothing else
I am afraid that this feature you want is not feasible.Boards is visible to all members of your organization.
You can only set the member to Project Readers at most, so that members only have read permissions but no modified permissions.
You can set the Assign to filter condition in the Filter of the backlogs to see the work items assigned to a specific person, but it can't prevent the user from viewing the work items assigned to others. In addition, there is no filter condition to see who created the work items.
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We have a number of groups that come from Azure Active Directory.
Some groups contain more than 200 Users but the total is limited to 200.
Where can I set that all users are visible in the group so more than 200
This is by design a currently only a design limitation.
Azure DevOps UI will only list the first 200 members of an AAD group.
The limitation is only in what members we display, it does not impact the actual permission assignment. If you need to find the related user, you should search on the specific user directly.
I can fully understand your requirement, I suggest that you can create a suggestion ticket in the Developer Community.
I want to prevent users from organization to create more than 5 work items in boards in each project. Also want to set a rule as more than 5 tickets if any users wants to create according to business need, we should enable the count.
Is there a way to do this??
Azure DevOps does not support such restrictions. In this case, you have to create your custom application via Rest Api, that rejects or deletes restricted work items:
Search work item: Query By Wiql, use [System.CreatedBy] field in your query
Get work item details (if you need to check some additional fields): Get Work Item
Update state (Update) or remove (Delete) restricted work items.
I am trying to understand the complete purpose of organisations in ADO. What I have understood is that an organisation groups projects, defines resources, extensions, billing, etc. that is related to the organization.
I am struggling with the user part of an organization. I can add users to an org giving them an access level. But I can also add users directly to a project without adding them to an organization at all.
What is then the consequence of this? Is then access level by default stakeholder for those users?
Thank you
You can add people to projects instead of to your organization. Users
are automatically assigned Basic features if your organization has
seats available, or Stakeholder features if not.
For this please refer to the Note of this document.
When you add members to projects and you don't have billing set up, Basic access is automatically assigned, until you run out of seats available. When you add members to projects and you do have billing set up, Basic access is assigned only if your default access level is set to Basic. Otherwise, project members are assigned Stakeholder permissions.
You can refer to Add members to projects or teams for details.
If you add an user to a project that user will be added to the organisation as well. At least when the said user first logs in. The user will get the access level you define as default.
Our main Azure DevOps Organization is linked to our Azure AD. We need to invite customers to specific projects as stakeholder only, and with this, they are added as external users in our AD. We found that within a customer project also, all other external users are visible, e.g. via mention with # anywhere in the text or assignment drop-down, although these do not have access to that project. Our only workaround so far is to create new non AD linked customer specific organizations, but this is really not the right way to go (licencing, management etc.)
Is there any option to prevent this and to restrict visibility to only those users, which are part of a project (or planned)?
I tested and found the same issue as you said. It is by design, you can raise a problem in the Developer Community
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/21/index.html
Besides, since there is a workaround that works now, continue on this basis. You can create different AAD for the customer specific organizations, then add the customers to these AAD. Thus, these users will be invisible because they are in different AAD organizations.
Currently users are members of the Project Administrators group.
Is that the minimum group membership required to add new User Stories and Bugs to the Boards interface?
Update
Area path permissions let you grant or restrict access to edit or modify work items, test cases, or test plans assigned to those areas. You can restrict access to users or groups. You can also set permissions for who can add or modify areas or iterations for the project.
You define both areas and iterations for a project from the Project Settings>Work>Project configuration.
1) Choose (1) Project Settings, expand Work if needed, and choose (2) Project configuration and then (3) Areas.
2) Choose the ... context menu for the node you want to manage and select Security.
More details please take a look our official link.
This is not only based on which group you are in.
Note:
Limitations to select features are based on the access level and
security group to which a user is assigned. The Basic access level and
higher supports full access to all Azure Boards features. Stakeholder
access level provides parti
So to add new User Stories and Bugs on the board, you need to meet both permissions and access for Azure Boards.
For Permission:
Boards present work items as cards and support quick status updates through drag-and-drop.
You could also use single permission to restrict users with Agile Boards. For if you want a simply solution, you could add them to Contributors Group directly.
Note: According to Azure DevOps permission setting, most groups and almost all permissions, Deny trumps Allow. If a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to Deny, that user will not be able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to Allow.
For Access Level:
Agile boards
Includes limited access to Kanban boards. Stakeholders can't add work items, can't drag-and-drop work items to update status, and can't update fields displayed on cards.
Conclusion: The minimum should be Contributors Group and Basic Access Level
No, the Contributors permissions it's enough:
More info about the board/work items permissions you can find here.