Azure DevOps docs: What's new for April 2020
Welcome to what's new in Azure DevOps docs for April 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Boards
New articles
- Move work items, change work item type - Scenario-based TOC for Azure Boards
- Keyboard shortcuts for Azure Boards and Team Explorer - Scenario-based TOC for Azure Boards
Extend
Updated articles
Organizations
New articles
- Differences between Inheritance and Hosted XML - Differences between Hosted and Inheritance Table
Updated articles
- About permissions and groups - Updates to about permissions
Pipelines
New articles
- Azure virtual machine scale set agents
- About pipeline resources - Update TOC items for resources
- Access repositories, artifacts, and other resources - Shared content for accessing repositories
- Trigger one pipeline after another - Triggering pipelines
- Configure schedules for pipelines - Scheduled triggers
- Build Bitbucket Cloud repositories - How to build Bitbucket Cloud repositories
Updated articles
- Runtime parameters - Adding more runtime parameter examples with a loop
- Define variables - Clarifications for various variables issues
- Build Azure Repos Git or TFS Git repositories - Update to use refactored shared content
- Build GitHub repositories - Update to used refactored shared content
GitHub issue content updates
Thank you for your feedback on our documentation. This month we made updates to our content to address the following GitHub issues.
- "User and permission management" link in the sidebar results in 404 #8051
- Path and Branch pipeline trigger combination unclear #8013
- Please update this page to add pre-req @ Azure DevOps Organization level #8006
- Error in extends example #7974
- Broken image #7928
- documentation:
**/ deletes all files and folders in the root folder.should be**/*#7921 - Cannot access mseng ADO org link #7902
- Azure Pipeline Task Invoke Azure Function Misleading #7896
- Options for TFVC CI triggers are not mentioned #7890
- Remove a VM from an Environment - Not up to date for Windows machine? #7875
- Missing image #7863
- 'Extend from a template' example does not fail, but should. #7856
- yaml example typo? #7853
- Add example in for looping through parameters and passing them as environment variables #7851
- Not obvious deployment goes to $(Pipeline.Workspace) instead of $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory) #7837
- TOC for this page contains unrelated entries like Data protection overview #7835
- Numbering wrong - two links are labeled as "1." #7834
- Images are broken #7824
- Additional Related Article #7805
- only two jobs defined but comment says 3 jobs #7795
- Invitation Email Example #7790
- MSBuild argument task incorrect parameter #7788
- The doc section title "Use deployment groups (Classic)" is confusing #7784
- Build.Reason variable description needs to be updated #7773
- How to make parameter optional #7765
- Docs could be clearer that these products / offerings are deprecated #7760
- copy paste error? #7708
- Task PublishPipelineArtifact@1 has no input named path #7701
- Missing supported scenario: Materializing user accounts #7644
- Hockeyapp link incorrect #7631
- Docs are out of date #7564
- Precedence of multiple variables with the same name from linked variable groups. #7384
- The React Documentation Does Not Publish Anything #7280
- Page out of date? #7078
- Clarification on using project scoped feeds #7030
- Please make clear whether caching is out of preview #7000
- vstsFeedPublish described incorrectly #6965
- vstsFeedPublish is inconsistently documented in sections #6964
- Invalid link to "How to discover menu group identifiers" #6929
- Document Working with Project-Scoped Artifact Feeds #6793
- Missing documentation on variable redefinition within the same scope #6632
- Not clear how to consume build artifacts without an extra step #6437
- Set a Gate time delay above 48 hours #6392
- Remove preview tag from this article #6300
- What do we put for '<feedName>' ? #5773
- Deployment Groups #5722
- Better quality graphics #5158
- Artifact name cannot be a variable #4851
- System.ArtifactsDirectory should probably be Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory #4808
- Custom Hub Group #4166
- Missing information on setting this up in a YAML Pipeline, and using dotnet restore #3884
- Do tasks have to be in jobs? #3665
- Update sample NuGet.config #3468
- Add .gitattributes files to repos to normalize line endings #1231
- What is notifyLoadFailed parameter? #979
- incorrect API used #967
- The JS snippet to discover group identifiers no longer works #900
- Reference please #753
Community contributors
The following people have contributed to Azure DevOps docs in April 2020. Thank you! You can learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- Jominana - Jorge Minana (3)
- roferg - Rogan Ferguson (2)
- catslovedata (1)
- ChristopherMank - Christopher Mank (1)
- cskiwi - Glenn Latomme (1)
- dmitrykurmanov - Dmitry Kurmanov (1)
- EugenMayer - Eugen Mayer (1)
- hensleyrob - Rob Hensley (1)
- jayendranarumugam - Jayendran Arumugam (1)
- jitusonawane - Jitendra Sonawane (1)
- jrr - John Ruble (1)
- mallibone - Mark Allibone (1)
- ManuelGalindo (1)
- NenoLoje - Neno Loje (1)
- pascalberger - Pascal Berger (1)
- ppcano - Pepe Cano (1)
- shadargee1982 (1)
- simonsabin - Simon Sabin (1)
- undergroundwires (1)