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  Carlos Stumpo April 4, 2025 0

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  Hi Dan,

  I need to build a board that allows the "coexistence" of Waterfall and Agile management work items.

  So I'm using the CMMI process and created the User Story in it from Requirements.

  I use Power Automate to create User Story or Requirements, depending on the management methodology (Waterfall or Agile).

  For this to work, I mapped all possible states from the User Story to the Requirement, at the Requirement level of my process (CMMI).

  My problem now is that I need to "omit" (hide) buckets according to the work item type created.

  That is, if Power Automate has to create a Requirement, it will...

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  Hi Dan,

  I need to build a board that allows the “coexistence” of Waterfall and Agile management work items.

  So I’m using the CMMI process and created the User Story in it from Requirements.

  I use Power Automate to create User Story or Requirements, depending on the management methodology (Waterfall or Agile).

  For this to work, I mapped all possible states from the User Story to the Requirement, at the Requirement level of my process (CMMI).

  My problem now is that I need to “omit” (hide) buckets according to the work item type created.

  That is, if Power Automate has to create a Requirement, it will “omit” the buckets that belong to the User Story, and vice versa.

  Question: is it possible to omit buckets (from mapped states) automatically? without having to manually set up the board columns?

  Thank you in advance

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    Dan Hellem Author April 4, 2025 0

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    Not sure I understand the question. But you can programmatically setup the board columns.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/work/?view=azure-devops-rest-7.2

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  Lorena Falcón Balderas March 31, 2025 0

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  Hi Dan,

  I have a problem, when we create a new item on the board and select an option from a list field at the time of changing it, it no longer displays the inherited list.

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    Dan Hellem Author March 31, 2025 · Edited 0

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    Sorry Lorena, I am not sure what this means. Feel free to create a ticket at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/ and post the ticket in this chat and I will make sure it gets reviewed. You can also email me directly

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  Christian Diekmann March 27, 2025 · Edited 1

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  IMHO the rollout is too soon. I tried the new UI multiple times and always changed back to the old one... leaving a comment for improvements that were apparently of low priority.

  Why?
  Because the new UI looks good and thats about it. The UX is worse compared to the old one. Missing shortcuts and generally less usable if you want to control the UI with your keyboard instead of the mouse. So it does take longer to complete the same tasks compared to before.
  Aside from taking longer, the new UI also takes up more space which results in a...

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  IMHO the rollout is too soon. I tried the new UI multiple times and always changed back to the old one… leaving a comment for improvements that were apparently of low priority.

  Why?
  Because the new UI looks good and thats about it. The UX is worse compared to the old one. Missing shortcuts and generally less usable if you want to control the UI with your keyboard instead of the mouse. So it does take longer to complete the same tasks compared to before.
  Aside from taking longer, the new UI also takes up more space which results in a worse overview.
  E.g. creating a new work item in the backlog is not long enough to see the whole title. Before this used to stretch with the window size.

  I could go on about many topics here when it comes to UX, but there is no point. I honestly don’t believe MS will do the right thing and reverse this until the new UI is properly implemented… same as with the system controls in windows, they have been a mess every since they wanted to modernize them. It does look a bit more promising since Windows 11 but it is still very much work in progress for over a decade now. God hope that they don’t introduce a new approach for system controls again, before finishing the current transition.

  Also very nice that everything feels like a “preview” nowadays…

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    Dan Hellem Author March 27, 2025 0

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    Thanks for the note, Christian. For some context, New Boards has been in preview for nearly three years. Throughout that time, we've actively communicated its availability through banners, pop-ups, blog posts, and other channels to ensure users were informed and had opportunities to share feedback.

    We’ve taken a gradual rollout approach—first enabling New Boards by default for select customer groups while still allowing them to revert. At each stage, we’ve invited feedback to help guide improvements. Today, about 98% of our customers are actively using New Boards, and among our most recent rollout group, 96% chose to stick with it after...

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    Thanks for the note, Christian. For some context, New Boards has been in preview for nearly three years. Throughout that time, we’ve actively communicated its availability through banners, pop-ups, blog posts, and other channels to ensure users were informed and had opportunities to share feedback.

    We’ve taken a gradual rollout approach—first enabling New Boards by default for select customer groups while still allowing them to revert. At each stage, we’ve invited feedback to help guide improvements. Today, about 98% of our customers are actively using New Boards, and among our most recent rollout group, 96% chose to stick with it after trying it.

    As you can see, the vast majority of users are using New Boards successfully. That said, we understand that people respond to change differently, and we genuinely want to make the transition as smooth as possible.

    If you’re experiencing specific issues or concerns, please submit a feedback ticket. I personally review every ticket that comes through. In fact, we’ve temporarily removed the support team from the middle of the process so our team can directly see and respond to all incoming feedback.

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      Scott Langham May 22, 2025 0

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      Agree. I spend a lot of my day in Azure DevOps. The new boards experience is slower to work with. I've submitted feedback multiple times. Only one thing has been addressed, I can now copy the work item ID to my clipboard from the board view without having to open the work-item. Thanks for that one.

      The new look wastes screen space, so I have to scroll more.

      Things like linking work-items with children/parents is just a lot worse. If you type in the ID for the parent you want to associate, it often briefly flashes up in the picker below that...

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      Agree. I spend a lot of my day in Azure DevOps. The new boards experience is slower to work with. I’ve submitted feedback multiple times. Only one thing has been addressed, I can now copy the work item ID to my clipboard from the board view without having to open the work-item. Thanks for that one.

      The new look wastes screen space, so I have to scroll more.

      Things like linking work-items with children/parents is just a lot worse. If you type in the ID for the parent you want to associate, it often briefly flashes up in the picker below that box, but before you can click on it, it disappears! Then you have to click the little search button in the drop-down, wait a moment and then it will reappear. Changing the parent for many items has never been easy, but now it’s even harder.

      And the “Save” and “Save As” buttons often now switch positions with each other on the work-item. I heard that’s supposed to be good and they’re now “sticky”. But, they’re not sticky enough, they used to stick in position in the old experience. Now they move about all the time. In the old experience at least you knew where the button was. This is especially a problem when you create a new work item. You aren’t allowed to change its state until you’ve first Saved it. So, create the work item, add a title, click the little drop down next to “Save and Close” to find the “Save” button, and click it. Then change the work-item’s state and update other fields. Now to “Save and Close”… well, it was on the top-right of the work-item, but now it’s swapped positions and the “Save” button has replaced it, so now you have to click the very small drop down arrow next to what is now the “Save” button, and then you can see the “Save and Close” button.

      This means that “Save” and “Save and Close” are often now not the button on the dialog, the one you want has always dropped down to be under the fiddley little menu.

      Oh, and if I edit a query, the Save button doesn’t enable, until I first click on a blank bit of the page. It’s just lots of little things like this that are just not as slick or well thought out as they were in the old experience.

      There is one better thing in the new boards. If you style how tags appear on the Kanban board, there are now more colours to pick from.

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  Carlos Stumpo March 21, 2025 0

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  Dan,
  I did use the backlog settting rule for "Activates the parent work item when at least one child has been activated." and "Complete the parent work item when all children are completed."
  So a created an Epic, then one Feature and finnaly an User Story (each a child of the previous one).
  Then I closed User Story, the most elementary of child and open "Epic level" board.
  I've got that error (which forced me to refresh the page):

  An unexpected error has occurred within this region of the page.
  You can try reloading this component or refreshing the entire page.Read more

  Dan,
  I did use the backlog settting rule for “Activates the parent work item when at least one child has been activated.” and “Complete the parent work item when all children are completed.”
  So a created an Epic, then one Feature and finnaly an User Story (each a child of the previous one).
  Then I closed User Story, the most elementary of child and open “Epic level” board.
  I’ve got that error (which forced me to refresh the page):

  An unexpected error has occurred within this region of the page.
  You can try reloading this component or refreshing the entire page.
  Refresh page
  Reload component
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    Dan Hellem Author March 21, 2025 0

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    Sorry Carlos. I don’t really understand the issue. Please post the issue to https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com and make sure you do a full screen recording so we can see what you see.