The team is excited to release the public preview of the Ux modernization for Azure Boards! The web platform has been updated to provide a faster Ux, consistency with other parts of the product, and accessibility compliance.
To opt-in to the public preview, in the preview features section toggle the feature named “New boards Hubs” to On.
Marketplace extension developers will want to preview the feature to ensure their extensions work with the new web platform.
The functionality remains the same. Below are examples of the new experience. Notice there are rounded corners and more space between rows. Please try the new experience and share your feedback.
Queries Hub
Backlog View
Kanban Board
With the feature turned on, when sending an email from a work item, it allows you to enter recipients, however when the email is sent, the recipients are blank and the email only goes to the sender. This results in the user thinking they are emailing and notifying other users and they are not. This is causing service misses.
Another issue we are getting is that we lost the ability to do bulk item updates:
We can still select multiple items, but than it cannot find any field to update and says “No item found” 🙁
I wish that you could make the Build Pipeline screen and the Release Pipeline screen look and function more alike. On the Build Pipeline the search is on the left and its on the upper right quarter of the screen for release pipeline
In general I like the look. But I am growing increasingly impatient with the lack of product development in boards. So I really hope that this is a foundational step on which we’ll see more features being rolled out. If this isn’t foundational then I would really question why you’re worrying about rounded corners when there is a mountain of customer requests in the feedback forum and a number of boards roadmap items that have been getting kicked down the road for well over 2 years.
I agree. None functional update with a bunch of issues instead of a any of the functional requests, some of which might have been just as easy to deliver.