Azure DevOps Extensions - Change extension category

Question

So I have an Azure DevOps extension that I made and it appears in the "Repos" category:

Repos category

I want it to appear in the "Pipelines" category:

Pipelines category

I already changed my vss-extension.json "categories" attribute to this:

vss-extension.json "categories" attribute

But it keeps appearing in the Repos tab.

Any idea if I can change this? Thank you

Answer 1

You need to change the contributions filed in vss-extension.json.

The targets:ms.vss-build-web.build-release-hub-group will show the extension in the Pipelines tab.

Here is an example:

  "contributions": [
        {
            "id": "my-hub",
            "type": "ms.vss-web.hub",
            "targets": [
                "ms.vss-build-web.build-release-hub-group"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "name": "My Hub",
                "uri": "my-hub.html"
            }
        }
    ],

Result:

Categories field is used to distinguish categories type of extension.

For example: