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Chart Widget Tag Grouping

2 posts · Sep 2013 – Jan 2021

What this trail covers

Azure Boards continues to evolve with enhanced reporting and visualization capabilities for Kanban and Sprint workflows. This includes interactive Sprint Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD), and Velocity reports, offering deeper insights into team progress, bottlenecks, and planning. Recent updates focus on improving user experience by introducing new system fields (Board Column, Board Column Done, Board Lane) that capture valuable data from the Kanban board. These fields are now integrated. Future plans include releasing a public preview of the widget SDK in Q1 of 2016, enabling custom widget development. Auto-refresh for dashboards is planned, and the widget catalog will be improved for better discoverability and placement. New widgets for builds, work items, tests, release management, and countdowns are planned, along with a dedicated cumulative flow diagram widget and the ability to display markdown files from repositories.

All Microsoft trails
  1. Group By Tags for Chart WidgetIntroduced the ability to group by tags in the Chart Widget, making tags available in the 'Group by' selection dropdown. Users can now filter by all tags or select specific tags for charting. The feature is currently in public preview.
  2. Create Dashboards without a TeamIntroduced Project Dashboards as a new dashboard type that does not require team association, enabling cross-team tracking, virtual-team collaboration, or special project dashboards. Project Dashboards are public by default but have configurable administrators. Existing Azure DevOps widgets that require team context have been updated to allow users to select a specific team in their configuration when added to Project Dashboards. Custom or 3rd party widgets will pass the default team's context, requiring updates for team selection.
  3. Dashboards Futures (January 2016)This post details upcoming features for Azure DevOps dashboards and widgets in H1 2016. Key improvements include enhancements to Edit Mode for better widget control (moving, resizing, third-party widgets), the upcoming release of a public preview for the widget SDK (requiring JavaScript, HTML, CSS knowledge), opt-in auto-refresh for dashboards, and more widgets and charts. Specific widget improvements include adding build, work item, and test charts directly from the dashboard, a cumulative flow diagram widget for visualizing workflow, and a markdown widget that can display files from a repository. The widget catalog will also be redesigned for better discoverability and placement.
  4. Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate now available for downloadThis post announces the release candidate of Visual Studio 2013, highlighting new features in Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio. For TFS, it introduces Work Item Charting, allowing users to create diverse charts from work item queries (Pie, Bar, Column, Stacked Bar, Pivot). It also details improvements in browser-based testing, including bulk editing test cases, running tests from Microsoft Test Manager or the web runner, and opening entire test plans from the web. Cloud-based load testing is also highlighted as part of Team Foundation Service. For Visual Studio, it mentions UI improvements like Peek Definition, Enhanced Scroll Bar, Navigate to, and Start settings enhancements. CodeLens is enhanced with indicators for bugs, work items, and code reviews, and integration with Microsoft Lync. User interface testing for XAML-based Windows Store Applications using Coded UI tests is introduced, supporting touch gestures on non-touch hardware. Unit Test Improvements for Windows Store Applications include Lambda and async method support. The Diagnostics Hub simplifies performance tool access. Managed Memory Analysis features are introduced for analyzing .NET memory use from production machine .dmp files. Finally, it mentions Office 365 Cloud Business Apps.