I have created some custom work item types and added them to the Requirement backlog area of the Backlog levels. We are using a customized Scrum template. Now what i would like to do it get them to show up on my feature card and be available as Add Custom Work Item Type. I would like something similiar to how on an card in the backlog items, the card with show the number of tasks and how many tasks have been completed, it will also show how many test have been added. Also if you click the button (3 dots) you have an option to Add Task and an option to Add Test. See images.
On the feature cards I only have the option to Add Backlog Item, is there a way to have my custom backlog item show on card and be available in the popup menu.
For now, only the default work item type for the requirement backlog level can be added through Feature board.
Such as the requirement backlog level contains the work item types: myPBI and Product Backlog Item (as below example). And if the myPBI is set as default work item type, then you can only add myBPI WIT through Feature board.
And I posted the user voice Enable to add all work item types at the same level through the parent work item type board which suggest this feature (enable to add both PBI and myPBI through Feature board as above example), you can vote and follow up.
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The stack rank of many work items changed automatically in Azure Devops. In all these work-items' history, it shows I changed the stack rank. Any idea why stack rank changed automatically for so many tasks without even touching them and got logged under my name??
The sequence of items on each backlog is determined according to where you've added the items or moved the items on the page. As you drag items within the backlog list, a background process updates the Stack Rank. This is by designed behavior.
You can click "Configure settings" button(gear icon) on "Board". -> Select "Card reordering". The default option is "Work items reorder when changing columns, and the backlog reflects the new order." -> Change the setting to "Work items follow the backlog order when changing columns.". -> Click "Save and Close".
Then drag the workitem(eg: user story), the stack rank won't be changed.
Please refer to the links below for the details:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/backlogs-overview?view=azure-devops#backlog-priority-or-stack-rank-order
VSTS - Backlog Priority altered by sorting in columns
I created an inherited process from the Agile Process and created a Custom State on the User Story WIT called "Done" under the "Completed" Category. This effectively hid the existing "Closed" state since you can only have one "Completed" State.
However, wherever the system is looking for "Completed", it's not recognizing "Done" as completed.
Example:
In the backlog view, when I use the toggle for "Show/Hide Completed Work Items" to hide everything that's completed, everything that's in "Done" state is still showing.
Backlogs are designed to display work that corresponds to a Proposed, In Progress, or Resolved category state. Once you've completed work and its state enters a Done, or Closed state, then it falls off the backlog view. You can always create a query to view completed work, or view the Recently completed pivot from the Work Items page.
Show/Hide Completed child Items is use for the child items based on current work item.
See the following example : in the backlog, I want to see Features, which means all the features in this backlog will list here except features with complete state.
Then, enable the complete child items, it will show feature's complete child work item instead of complete features. Also, when enable the parents filter, the parent epic of feature will shows up as well.
When disable the complete child items, both the of child items user story and task won't show up.
In addition, if the task is not complete but user story is done, user story will show up as well because the task is an uncomplete child work item.
When I have the list view of work items which will show if I click "Work items", how do I change state of a work item or view comments? Work items seem to not be draggable. There seems to be no dropdown to use to change the state. The comments speech bubbles seems to not be clickable.
Menu:
View:
This is really a simple one. You should double click on a work item so that you will able see all the details in it. Along with the details you can view comments. On the top right corner you can see a drop down for state, through which you can change the state.
You have there different views. Boards is like a Kanban - you can there chanage a state by drag and drop to different columns. But you will not be able there to see comment wihtout going inside.
Sprints is kind iof similar but introduce context of sprint. So you have timeline with columns representing states for given timebox/sprint.
Use this view which works best for you, but try and check as this is the best way to learn it.
We've created a new work item type called "Improvement", but found that it does not show in any board or backlog - only search. After some digging in settings, I found this:
Can you really not add new work item types and get them into your workflow along side the default types?
In this page, hover with the mouse on the work item level you want to include your custom item and click "Edit":
In the screen that opens you can add the custom work item.
In Jira you can simply copy the URL of a work item to link to it, send it to someone on slack or whatever. Super handy.
In VSTS it doesn't look like that's possible, the URL doesn't change based on the work item selected.
The best I could do was copy the little link on the top left which goes to the work items edit screen but what I'd really like is a link which goes to the work item popup with the sprint wall in the background
You can copy the link to the work item by right-clicking, copy link location from just about any work item grid and board.
You can copy the work item link from the Edit view by right-clicking the WORK ITEM TYPE #123 and selecting "copy link address"
There is no link which will directly open the backlog view or board view with the work item in edit mode.