We have customized out workitems to a far extent. Now the copy/clone are throwing exceptions. Can I disable copy/clone work item in TFS? Is it possible?
According to your description, seems you are meaning the feature as below screenshot:
There is no way to disable the feature directly in TFS, unless you restrict the user's related permission.
The user which want to copy/clone work item must have your View work items in this node, and your Edit work items in this node permissions set to Allow.
More details please refer this tutorial: Copy or clone work items
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I am running Azure DevOps 2019 RC1 with an Inheritance Collection and a new Agile project.
I have a requirement that when a user creates a work item (task/issue), they must automatically be added as a follower of this work item. How can I achieve this? I have look in the rules for the work item under process customisation but it doesn't appear to be possible this way.
We are using the tickets to track issues. Whoever discovers the issue raises the ticket. The basic requirement is that anyone who raises a ticket should be automatically notified of its progress, even though they are not responsible for the development or testing.
Currently the work around is telling the user that when they create an issue they must click the Follow button, but it is easy for them to forget and then lose their updates. It seems like a very simple customisation so maybe I'm missing the obvious.
Thanks
I think you can't auto follow things currently, but you can add notification setting that will send automatically emails when work item is updated. To do this, go to Project Settings > Notifications page and create new subscription. Select "Work/A work item is changed" and put "Members of ... team by role" in Deliver to selection. Set roles to "Created by" and untick the "Skip initiator".
Your problem would be addressed precisely with the feature requested in the official Azure DevOps' feedback platform here:
479189 - Automatically follow work items I interact with
(That page also mentions workarounds, including per-team one answered here, and a per-person alternative. See this comment. The shortcoming of both is that they don't allow to you to unsubscribe for selected tickets.)
Unable to drag and drop workitems on the board in TFS2013 whereas manually able to change the status from one to another (example: In progress to Done etc.). It's not happening for all the users, only few not able to perform this. Is this sort of permissions issue? if yes, where would this need to be set to avoid the issue. Any ideas.
Yes, for work tracking permission, you could grant or restrict access to various work tracking features by granting users or groups specific permissions for an object, team project, or collection. Please double check Set permissions and access for work tracking
You could use tf command line to list two users' related permission. One could, another is not unable. This will narrow down the issue.
Another thing, instead of drag and drop work items on the board in TFS2013 to change work item status. Suggest you ask that user to change the work item status in the work item directly . He may lack of the related permission for that specific work item.
I want to follow several work items and to be able to do this in bulk rather than having to go into each item and click 'follow'. I have created a query but can't see a way of getting updates on the status of each item within the query. Is this possible?
Unfortunately, there isn't the feature for now, there are two user voices to suggest the feature , you can go and vote them up to achieve it in future:
User Voice:
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-studio-team-services/suggestions/16650295-i-can-t-seem-to-bulk-follow-items
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-studio-team-services/suggestions/13885038-assign-followers-to-a-work-item
As a workaround, you can create a notification alert for the work items change. See Set alerts, get notified when changes occur for details.
I've allowed my Stakeholders to create Work Items but I would like to restrict them to only be able to create bugs and NOTHING else. Currently they can create ANY Work Item type including Epics... I'm thinking there has to be a way to stop this but I can't seem to find it.
There is no setting for this. And there is already a similar feature request submitted on VSTS User Voice: Hide Work Item Types (WITs) based on permission/security group.
We're using team system to control our developement (product backlog items, sprint backlog items etc). It's a pretty nice tool but we wanted to allow other users to be able add bugs and new feature suggestions WITHOUT letting them mess with the actual development bits.
I can set these guys up so they add the work items they need but I can't see a way to block access to the bits I don't want them to edit/view. Has anyone else seen this? Has anyone found a solution?
Are you using TFS 2010? If so, you can simply add them to the Work Item View Only Users group. This will grant them access to create new work items and to view/edit any work items they've created (but not others). Check out this link for instructions.