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Azure DevOps Demo Generator helps teams create projects on their Team Services account with pre-populated sample content that includes source code, work items, iterations, service endpoints, build and release definitions based on a chosen template
https://azuredevopsdemogenerator.azurewebsites.net/
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Using Custom Template #337

Closed asifmasooddevops closed 4 years ago

asifmasooddevops commented 4 years ago

Hi Team,

This is the first time I used AzureDevOpsDemoGenerator for creating and utilizing Custom Template. When the new Project is created, I see that not all work items are copied, the area path configuration not copied and as well as the iteration path not copied, board swimlanes styles are not copied. Is it a limitation of the tool or am I doing something wrong. Is there any way I can edit the JSON file to match the master project? Attached screenshot. Issue Screenshot.docx

Any help is highly appreciated

AB#3515

aksh-h commented 4 years ago

Hi @asifmasooddevops Thank you for reaching us. Looks like you are using custom process template. Demo Generator is used to set up a demo environments with some pre-configured templates. Please find our limitation document here.Let us know if this helps.

asifmasooddevops commented 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for the reply. Is it not possible that I manually edit the .JSON file and import it afterwards? If yes, can you share some technical details on it?

aksh-h commented 4 years ago

Area paths and sprints will not created as is in the source project. Demo Generator will create default sprints and assign the dates. Work items should be imported if the select organization has the same process template.

asifmasooddevops commented 4 years ago

Hi, The Organization has the same process template (custom) but work items are still not copied over except one work item. Is there any way that the downloaded .json files can be edited to make the fine tuning i.e area path, iteration path etc? If not is there an plan in the future release to include this feature? It is very important because if we do SAFe on Azure DevOps, the iterations and area path configured to support PI, Porfolio, Program structure.

asifmasooddevops commented 4 years ago

Also, one more question. Is it possible to keep the template zip file in Azure Repo and get it from there during the project creation using the demo generator. I see 3 options, Local. GitHub and URL. DOes the URL supports Azure Repo URL?

aksh-h commented 4 years ago

Hi, The Organization has the same process template (custom) but work items are still not copied over except one work item. Is there any way that the downloaded .json files can be edited to make the fine tuning i.e area path, iteration path etc? If not is there an plan in the future release to include this feature? It is very important because if we do SAFe on Azure DevOps, the iterations and area path configured to support PI, Porfolio, Program structure.

We have very limited support for Custom Process Templates here, if the work items are not creating, try to modify the area path/iteration path to default area/sprint, and wrap it up as zip file, try to provision new project using Demo Generator.

aksh-h commented 4 years ago

Also, one more question. Is it possible to keep the template zip file in Azure Repo and get it from there during the project creation using the demo generator. I see 3 options, Local. GitHub and URL. DOes the URL supports Azure Repo URL?

You can keep the templates in GitHub repo and provide the zip file URL/raw URL in the required field in Demo Generator. If the repo is private, it requires credentials too.

Let me know if you need any other help.

asifmasooddevops commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the reply. This topics can be closed now.