Roll-up your backlog board on your dashboards

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We’re pleased to announce the latest version of the Roll-up Board Widget, created by Mikael Krief, which allows you to display aggregated views of your backlog boards on your dashboards.

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What’s New?

Based on telemetry observations and your feedback, we’ve evolved the extension a bit.

Do not display hidden backlog level

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The dropdown list does not include hidden boards on the widget configuration panel.
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If the board is hidden after the widget is configured, the widget displays a warning message prompting you to reconfigure the widget.

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Do not throw exception if the backlog level was been renamed

If the backlog level is renamed after the widget is configured, the widget displays this error message.
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Colour of the widget title is the same as the colour of the configured backlog level

Here’s an example:

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More widget sizes

As requested, we’ve included two larger widget sizes

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Deprecated support for Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015

We rely on a version of the API that is not supported by TFS 2015. Support for TFS 2015 has been deprecated in version 2.
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What’s Next?

We’re using this extension to validate our feature flag research with the LaunchDarkly service. In an upcoming release, we’ll demonstrate these two scenarios:

  • Enable Application Insights telemetry on demand, without having to build, validate, and deploy another release. We’ll simply flip a switch (flag).
  • Enable detailed F12 Debugger Tools console log messages, for a specific user, again by flipping a switch. 

Watch this space.

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