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Out Of Box widget catalog

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Widgets display information and charts on dashboards. Many widgets are configurable and scoped to a team or to the logged in user account. Many display information available from one or more data stores or charts maintained within the system. You add a widget to a dashboard as described in Add a widget to a dashboard. For example, you can add the Build History widget from the dashboard's Add widget dialog.

Build history widget

This article provides a quick reference of all out of box (OOB) widgets that you can add to your dashboard. In addition to the OOB widgets, you may find more widgets in the Marketplace or create your own.

Supported OOB widgets

Widgets listed in the following table are provided out-of-box. They're organized under the service they support. Widgets are annotated as follows:

  • Build: Widget derives data for a selected build pipeline
  • Team: Widget is scoped to a single team
  • User: Widget is scoped to the logged in user account


Build


Information and links


Note

Widgets and multiple dashboards are not supported features in TFS 2013, instead, you can pin items to a team homepage. Consider upgrading to the latest TFS version to get access to the widget catalog and multiple team dashboards.

Prerequisites

Note

Data displayed within a chart or widget is subject to permissions granted to the signed in user. To learn more, see FAQs on Azure DevOps dashboards, charts, and reports, Access and permissions.

Work widgets

Add work tracking widgets to your dashboards to show status, progress, or trends. You use work items to plan and track work.

In addition to the widgets listed here, you can add a work item query chart to your dashboard. To learn more, see Track progress with status and trend query-based charts.

Chart for work items

Chart work item query widget


Adds a tile to display a progress or trend chart that builds off a shared work item query.

From the configuration dialog, select a shared query and specify the chart type and values.

Requires TFS 2015.2 or later version. For TFS 2015.1 and earlier versions, see Add charts to a dashboard to add shared query charts to a dashboard.

New Work item

New work item widget


Enables you to add work items from the dashboard. Work items that you add using this widget are automatically scoped to the team's default **Area Path**. The **Iteration Path** assigned matches the last **Iteration Path** assigned to a work item by the currently signed in user.

To change team defaults, see About teams and Agile tools.
Requires TFS 2015.1 or later version.

Query results

Query results widget


Adds a configurable tile that lists the results of a shared query. From the configuration dialog, select either a team favorite or shared query.

To create a shared query, see Use the query editor to list and manage queries.

Query tile

Query tile widget


Adds a configurable tile to display the summary of shared query results. From the configuration dialog, select either a team favorite or shared query. You can optionally specify rules to change the query tile color based on the number of work items returned by the query.

To create a shared query, see Use the query editor to list and manage queries.

Sprint burndown

Sprint burndown widget, Azure DevOps Server 2019 and earlier versions.


Adds the team's burndown chart for the current sprint to the dashboard. This chart always displays data for the current sprint.

Teams use the burndown chart to mitigate risk and check for scope creep throughout the sprint cycle.

Sprint capacity

Sprint capacity widget


Inserts the team's capacity bar chart for the current sprint. To plan and monitor their sprint resources, team set capacity and update Remaining Work throughout the sprint.

See Set capacity.

Sprint overview

Sprint overview widget


Inserts a visual overview of sprint progress indicating the number of backlog items in progress, completed, or not started.

Teams plan their sprints by defining sprints and assign backlog items to an iteration.

Work links widget


Provides quick access to open these Agile tools and team resources:

Code widgets

Add code tracking widgets to track changes made within a repository or get quick access to Git pull requests for your team.

Code tile

Code tile widget


Adds a configurable tile to display the summary of a code folder or Git repository. To configure, select the added tile, select a repository, select a branch (Git only) and select a path. The code tile supports both TFVC and Git repositories.

Pull request

Pull request widget


Adds a configurable widget to display active PRs requested by the team, or assigned to or requested by the person logged in. Select the team and Git repository for the pull requests of interest.

To learn more about pull requests, see Review code with pull requests.

Build and Release widgets

Add the Build History pipeline widget to track the health of your builds.

Build history

Build history widget


Adds a tile to display a histogram of all builds run for the configured build pipeline. From the configuration dialog, select the build you want to monitor. Hover over a bar to learn how long the build took to complete. Select the bar to open the summary for that specific build. Bar color indicates: green-completed, red-failed, and yellow-completed without tests.

Add test tracking widgets to your dashboards to show status, progress, or trends of your testing efforts. In addition to the widgets listed here, you can add test tracking charts to your dashboard. To learn more, see Track test status.

Add one or more of the following widgets to support adding:

  • Configurable content
  • Links to features
  • Functions your team accesses often

Markdown

Markdown widget


Adds a configurable tile to display any type of information, guidance, or links that you want. From the configuration dialog, add the information you want to share with your team.

To learn more, see Add Markdown to a dashboard.
Requires TFS 2015.1 or later version. For TFS 2015.2 or later versions, you can configure the widget to point to a file stored in your repository.

Other links widget


The following links are displayed when the corresponding resource is configured for the project:

Other links widget, TFS-2018 and earlier versions.

To add or update reports for a project, see Add reports to a project.

Team members

Team members widget


Shows team member profiles and, on-hover, their user alias.

For team admins, supports access to the quick dialog to add or remove team members.

Note

This widget is a convenient way to add team members to specific teams within projects. If you remove it, you can still add members to your team from the team administration page.

Team room

Team room widget


Provides status and access to [team rooms](../../notifications/collaborate-in-a-team-room.md). Available for TFS 2015.1 through TFS 2017.2 versions. Team rooms support increased team productivity by providing a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that arise. Team administrators can create more team rooms.

Note

Team Rooms have been deprecated as described in Deprecation of Team Rooms blog post. Several good solutions are available that integrate well with TFS that support notifications and chat, such as Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Visual Studio Shortcuts

Visual Studio widget


Provides links to open or download Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio IDE client comes with the Team Explorer plug-in which provides quick access to several features (some of which aren't available through the web portal).

Welcome

How to links widget


Provides links to the major Azure DevOps Services—work tracking boards, code, and builds—and reference documentation on how to add charts.

Screenshot of Welcome widget tile.

Marketplace widgets

You may find more widgets of interest in the Marketplace.

If your organization owner or project collection administrator disables a marketplace widget, you'll see the following image:

Disabled widget extension notification

To regain access to it, request your admin to reinstate or reinstall the widget.

Extensibility

Using the REST API service, you can create a dashboard widget. To learn more about the REST APIs for dashboards and widgets, see Dashboards (API).