Add charts to a dashboard

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Prerequisites

• You must be a member of a project. If you don't have a project yet, create one.
• You must have created the team dashboard to which you want to add a chart.
• If you haven't been added as a project member, get added now.
• To add, edit, or manage a team dashboard, you must have Basic access or greater and be added to the team administrator role for the team.

To learn more, see Default permissions and access for charts and dashboards.

Add a work item query or chart

You add work item queries and charts to a dashboard from the Queries page. Queries and charts must be associated with queries under the Shared queries folder.

Note

You can also add a work item query chart widget to a team dashboard.

1. First, make sure you've selected your team context. Only those dashboards created for a team appear in the context menu for each query or chart. Switch team context as needed.

2. If you aren't a team administrator, get added as one. Only team and project admins can add and customize team dashboards.

3. If you haven't yet created the dashboard, do that now.

4. From the charts Actions menu, select the team dashboard.

   

   You can only add charts associated with shared queries. Charts associated with queries under My Queries folder won't display the Add to dashboard option.

Add an in-context work tracking report

Add a release summary chart

Each time a release is deployed, it logs information about the release to each of its environments. You can add a release tile to your team dashboard to monitor release progress and gain quick access to each release.

Note

You can also add this chart to a team dashboard from the widget catalog. Requires TFS 2017.1 or later versions.

1. Open Pipelines>Releases to add a release definition chart to a team dashboard.

   

2. Release pipeline charts show the success (green), in progress (blue), cancellation (red), or non-deployment (grey) to an environment for the current and last four releases:

   

Add a test quality trend chart

You can add trends to the dashboard of the failures and duration of those tests that were run as part of a build.

Note

You can also add a test result trend chart widget to a dashboard.

Requires TFS 2017.2 or later version.

1. Select your team context, make sure you're a team admin.

2. Open a build summary for a build pipeline to which you've added tests.

3. Open the Tests page

4. Select the bar chart for either Test failures or Test duration.

   

5. Open the actions menu and select the dashboard to add the chart to.

   

   Learn more about reviewing automated test results after a build.

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