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Azure DevOps Collection Settings

For those who have setup Azure DevOps with a Collection (Not an Organization), is it possible to do the following:

  1. Add custom "Process" fields into the like say "States" on the agile process? For some reason this button is disabled on the "Collections" options
  2. Is it possible to add a more columns to our sprint board? It seems like we can add things to our "board" but the sprint board we are not able to add any new columns.
Solution

  • Add custom "Process" fields into the like say "States" on the agile process? For some reason this button is disabled on the "Collections" options

    It seems that you are using Inheritance process. If you want to edit the process(e.g. add new state to work item), you need to create an inherited process.

    Inheritanced

    This option is in Collection Settings -> Process. Then you could custom the process in the inherited process.

    inherited Process

    Is it possible to add a more columns to our sprint board?

    Since you are using the Inheritance Process and Collection, it seems that there is no option to add the column in the Sprint -> taskboard.

    By the way, this feature supports in the Organizaiton.

    Here is the doc about the taskboard, you could refer to it.

    Updates:

    Since you are using the hosted Process, you could try the following steps to add the new state and column.

    Here are the steps:

    1. Export Process through WitAdmin command or Export option.
    2. Navigate to WorkItem Tracking -> Process ->ProcessConfiguration.xml.
    3. Add state item in TaskBacklog => States section (Add Column). If you want to add state to other work items, you could add to state to other Backlog category.

    For example:

    <States>
  <State type="Proposed" value="To Do" />
  <State type="InProgress" value="In Progress" />
  <State type="InProgress" value="Review" />
  <State type="Complete" value="Done" />
</States>
    1. Import modified work item file and process file to the team project
    2. Check the result in web access.

    For more details how to use WitAdmin command to export and import process configure file. Please refer our official tutorial here--Import and export process configuration .