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.
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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.)
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
I've got an app in Podio that represents Meetings. One of the fields is time/date and it allows a reminder to be set for that time/date (much like you can with tasks).
I've also got an iOS app that can create Meeting items and I was hoping there was a way to programatically create a reminder when the item is created (or that a workflow could be created to handle it) but it doesn't seem to be possible. The Reminders API only works for tasks, according to the documentation, and there doesn't seem to be another way to do this?
It might be missing in documentation, but reminders should also work for items.
Please try to create one using details from here: https://developers.podio.com/doc/reminders/create-or-update-reminder-3315055 and use item as ref_type and your item id as ref_id
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.
I'm looking to reproduce the Jira watch functionality in TFS 2013. In Jira, you can click a link to watch an item and thereafter you will be notified when anything on that item changes.
I know on TFS you can:
be emailed if anyone changes a bug you are assigned to
manually email a bug to anyone at any time
Create a custom report and pin it to your home page to notify yourself of things (like this maybe?)
I can imagine creating a new field that will accept multiple users and creating a custom email notification to notify everyone in that list if the work item changes. But that seem like a whole lot of work and I'm not sure were to start if that is the way do do this.
What's the easiest way to get functionality like watching a work item? If it's easy and similar to the Jira functionality that is better for me than exactly the same and hard to do.
Sure, you can setup email alerts based on many different criteria, including what you asked for.
You need to go to the Alerts section, and create a new custom alert, and you can put in the ID of whatever work item you want to "watch". By default it includes the clause AuthorizedAs <> [Me] which will make sure it doesn't email you for changes that you make, but you can remove that clause if you'd like.