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Add widgets to a dashboard

TFS 2018

Widgets smartly format data to provide access to easily consumable data. You add widgets to your team dashboards to gain visibility into the status and trends occurring as you develop your software project.

Each widget provides access to a chart, user-configurable information, or a set of links that open a feature or function. You can add one or more charts or widgets to your dashboard. Up to 200 widgets total. You add several widgets at a time simply by selecting each one. See Manage dashboards to determine the permissions you need to add and remove widgets from a dashboard.

Prerequisites

Note

Data that's displayed within a chart or widget is subject to permissions granted to the signed in user. For example, if a user doesn't have permissions to view work items under an area path, then those items don't display in a query results widget in a dashboard. For more information, see FAQs on Azure DevOps dashboards, charts, and reports, Access and permissions.

Open a dashboard

All dashboards are associated with a team. You must be a team administrator, project administrator, or a team member with permissions to modify a dashboard.

  1. Open a web browser, connect to your project, and select Dashboards.

Screenshot of dashboards directory-previous-navigation.

  1. Select the team whose dashboards you want to view. To switch your team focus, see Switch project or team focus.

  2. Select the name of the dashboard to modify it.

For example, here we select to view the Work in Progress dashboard.

Screenshot of selecting a team dashboard.

If you need to switch to a different project, select the Azure DevOps logo to browse all projects.

Add a widget

Select Edit dashboard icon to modify a dashboard. Select add a widget icon to add a widget to the dashboard.

The widget catalog describes all available widgets, many of which are scoped to the selected team context.

Or, you can drag and drop a widget from the catalog onto the dashboard.

Configure a widget

Most widgets support configuration, which might include specifying the title, setting the widget size, and other widget-specific variables.

To configure a widget, add the widget to a dashboard, select open the actions icon menu, and select Configure.

Screenshot of opened dashboard dialog.

Move or delete a widget

To move a widget, you need to enable the dashboard edit mode. To delete a widget, select the delete option provided from the widget's More actions menu.

Select Edit dashboard icon to modify your dashboard. You can then drag tiles to reorder their sequence on the dashboard.

To remove a widget, select the actions icon actions icon and select Delete it.

Screenshot of deleting a widget from a dashboard.

When you're finished with your changes, select Exit edit-dashboard-mode icon to exit dashboard editing.

Copy a widget

You can copy a widget to the same dashboard or to another team dashboard. If you want to move widgets you configured to another dashboard, here's how you do it. Before you begin, add the dashboard that you want to copy or move the widget to. Once you copy the widget, you can delete it from the current dashboard.

To copy a configured widget to another team dashboard, select the Actions icon actions icon and select Add to dashboard and then the dashboard to copy it to.

Copy a widget to another team dashboard

Widget size

Some widgets are presized and can't be changed. Others are configurable through their configuration dialog.

For example, the Chart for work items widget allows you to select an area size ranging from 2 x 2 to 4 x 4 (tiles).

Screenshot of change widget size function.

Extensibility and Marketplace widgets

In addition to the widgets described in the Widget catalog, you can:

Disabled Marketplace widgets

If your organization owner or project collection administrator disables a marketplace widget, the following notification displays:

Screenshot of Disabled widget extension notification.

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

Next steps