Work Item Voting Extension for Azure DevOps

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This simple Azure DevOps extension adds voting 👍 and 👎 (to remove your vote) buttons to a work item and maintains a votes counter. Hovering over the 👍 button, shows the current list of voters.

The extension requires the creation of two Work Item custom fields for its backing store:

• One of type Text to internally maintain the list of unique voters.
• One of type Integer to maintain the total vote count.

To add the custom fields to your Azure DevOps project process, go to Organization Settings -> Boards -> Process -> All processes -> Fields. Add the two fields described above.

To then add the Voting Extension on a particular type of Work Item, go to Organization Settings -> Boards -> Process -> All processes, open the Process Work Item that you would like to add voting to and select Add custom control. You can then choose the Voting control from the list of available controls and configure it under its Options tab.