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Process Customization

1 post · Dec 2015

What this trail covers

Azure DevOps process customization evolves with shared and inherited processes, allowing for centralized management and easier updates. Users can now add custom fields, modify layouts, and manage process security at the collection level. Projects can be migrated to inherited processes, preserving history and enabling seamless adoption of new features. This phase focuses on adding custom fields and modifying work item layouts.

All Microsoft trails
  1. Adding a custom field to a work itemThis post introduces the first phase of process customization in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), enabling users to add custom fields and modify the layout of existing work item types. It details the new shared and inherited process model, where processes are collection-level entities that projects reference. The post explains how to create inherited processes, migrate existing projects to them, and manage process security. It provides a step-by-step guide on adding a custom date field to the Bug work item type, including options for layout and field requirements.