Key concepts and work item tasks
Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019
Use this index to quickly access concepts and tasks related to work items and information on adding and updating work items—such as users stories, features, tasks, and bugs.
Note
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Key concepts
Work item user tasks
Tasks listed below are available to users with Contributor permissions and Basic access.
- Add a work item
- Add Epics
- Add Features
- Add items to a backlog
- Add items to a board
- Add links
- Add tags
- Add tasks
- Add to discussion
- Apply a template to a work item
- Assign work to a team member
- Bulk add or remove tags
- Bulk modify work items (Excel)
- Bulk modify work items (Web)
- Capture work item as a template
- Change the link type
- Change work item type
- Copy or clone a work item
- Copy work item URL
- Copy list of work items
- Create a branch
- Create a work tracking chart
- Filter a backlog, board, or plan
- Filter the History tab
- Follow a work item
- Forecast work items
- Get notified of work item changes
- Group work items
- Link to cross-organization work items
- Link to development objects
- Link to GitHub commits and pull requests
- Link to work items from a wiki
- Link work items
- List work items
- List work items in a wiki
- Manage bugs
- Manage issues or impediments
- Manage work item tags
- Map work items
- Move a card to a specific column position
- Move work items to a sprint
- Move work items to another project
- Open work items
- Print work items
- Prioritize backlog items
- Query work item history
- Query for work items
Administrative customization tasks
Tasks listed below must be performed by an administrator who has the necessary permissions, as they affect all users and teams within a project.
You customize work item types using the Inheritance process model.
You customize work item types using either the Inheritance process model or On-premises XML process model. The model in effect for the project depends on the selection made for the project collection where the project is defined.
Inherited process model
- Add a checkbox (Boolean) field
- Add a custom field
- Add a custom work item type
- Add/remove custom fields
- Add/remove custom groups
- Add/remove custom pages
- Add/remove a custom control
- Add/remove custom rules to a field
- Add a person-name/Identity
- Add a picklist (drop-down menu)
- Add a rich-text (HTML) field
- Add, edit, or remove a WIT workflow state
- Change a field label
- Change the WIT color or description
- Change the reference process from Agile to Scrum
- Change the reference process from Basic to Agile
- Change the reference process from Scrum to Agile
- Create a project
- Add a custom field
- Add a custom work item type (WIT)
- Add/remove custom fields from a WIT
- Add/remove custom groups on a WIT form
- Add/remove custom pages on a WIT form
- Add/remove a custom control on a WIT form
- Add/remove custom rules to a field
- Add a person-name/Identity
- Add a picklist (drop-down menu)
- Add a rich-text (HTML) field
- Add, edit, or remove a WIT workflow state
- Change a field label
- Change the WIT color or description
- Create a project
On-premises XML process model
You customize work item types using the On-premises XML process model. For more customization options, see On-premises XML process customization.