Work Item Sheets
Work with Azure DevOps at the speed you think.
Work Item Sheets gives your team a fast, flexible workspace for managing work items across projects — with bulk editing, grouping, filtering, hierarchy, and timeline planning built directly into Azure DevOps. Stop opening work items one by one. Start working the way modern teams actually move.
More than a spreadsheet-style editor, Work Item Sheets is a visual work management workspace for Azure DevOps. Move seamlessly between fast grid editing, grouped project overviews, hierarchy management, and visual timeline planning — all on top of your existing Azure DevOps work items.
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Why Work Item Sheets
Azure DevOps Boards is powerful — but editing work items one by one is slow. If you've ever wished you could just open a spreadsheet and bulk-edit your backlog, update statuses across projects, or sort and filter your entire sprint in seconds, this is it.
Modern teams need more than static boards and endless clicking. Work Item Sheets gives you a flexible workspace for planning, coordinating, and managing work visually across teams, projects, and timelines — without leaving Azure DevOps.
- Bulk edit anything — update titles, assignees, states, priorities, and custom fields inline across dozens of items at once.
- Multi-project in one view — combine work items from multiple projects into a single sheet. No more tab-switching.
- A new way to work in Azure DevOps — fast keyboard navigation, inline editing, grouping, hierarchy, and instant overview across your projects.
- Always in sync — changes save back to Azure DevOps in real time. No import/export, no copy-paste.
- Works with your existing fields — custom fields, area paths, iteration paths, tags — all visible and editable.
- Visual timeline planning — switch from sheets to a Gantt-style planner to schedule work visually, drag and resize timelines, manage hierarchy, and spot bottlenecks instantly.
How it works
- Open Boards → Sheets from any Azure DevOps project.
- Click + New sheet and choose your projects, work item types, and filters.
- Edit work items directly in the sheet — inline, fast, and auto-saving.
- Star sheets you use often, share them with your team, or use templates to get started in seconds.
Demo
🎬 See how Work Item Sheets transforms Azure DevOps into a fast, visual workspace for bulk editing, timeline planning, grouping, hierarchy management, and multi-project coordination.
Screenshots
The sheet view — bulk-edit your entire backlog across projects, with conditional highlighting
Multi-project support — combine projects into one sheet
New sheet setup — up and running in seconds
Bulk editing — change multiple items at once
Dark mode
Timeline planner — visualise your work items on a Gantt chart
Features
Work Item Sheets is designed for teams that need speed, overview, and flexibility when managing large amounts of work in Azure DevOps.
Switch instantly between spreadsheet-style editing and visual planning views while keeping everything fully connected to your Azure DevOps work items in real time.
- Spreadsheet-style work item editing — inline editing for all standard and custom fields, no page reloads.
- Multi-project views — combine work items from multiple projects into a single unified sheet.
- Bulk editing — select multiple rows and update fields across all of them simultaneously.
- Custom columns — choose which fields appear as columns, reorder them, and resize as needed.
- Filters & sorting — filter by any field, sort by multiple columns, save your view for next time.
- Grouping — group work items by any field to focus on what matters.
- Visual work management — manage projects using flexible grid and timeline views designed for planning, coordination, prioritization, and execution at scale.
- Timeline planner — switch instantly from sheet view to a visual timeline planner with drag-and-drop scheduling, hierarchy, grouping, and independent timeline column management.
- Real-time Azure DevOps sync — all changes persist immediately to Azure DevOps work items.
- Templates — save sheet configurations as templates and reuse them across your team.
- Starred & shared sheets — star frequently used sheets and share them with teammates.
- Dark mode — full support for Azure DevOps light and dark themes.
- Sharing — share sheets openly with your entire organization or with specific individuals by name.
- Starred sheets — star your most-used sheets for instant access from the top of your list.
- 30-day free trial — no credit card required.
Pricing
- Free for teams with up to 10 users
- 30-day free trial for larger organizations
- Flexible paid plans based on organization size
Licensing and subscription management are handled directly within the app.
Limitations & notes
- Work Item Sheets requires Azure DevOps (cloud). Azure DevOps Server (on-premises) is not currently supported.
- Import from Excel is coming soon.
- The sheet view is optimised for work items with standard and custom fields — boards-specific features like swimlanes are not replicated in the sheet view.
- Very large queries (5,000+ work items) may experience slower initial load times.
Support
For help, questions, or bug reports, contact support@rixter.se or use the support portal:
https://rixter.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2
Please include your Azure DevOps organization name and organization ID when reaching out — it helps us resolve issues faster.
Privacy & data
Work Item Sheets stores only the minimal configuration needed to display and operate your sheets — such as saved sheet definitions, column layouts, and filter preferences. This data is stored within your Azure DevOps organization's extension storage.
We as a vendor have no access to your work item data. The extension reads and writes work items exclusively on your behalf, using your Azure DevOps permissions. It does not transmit your data to any external service.
Permissions
The extension requests the following permissions for specific, limited reasons:
vso.extension.data — read saved sheet configurations and layout preferences stored in your organization.vso.extension.data_write — save sheet configurations, column layouts, and filter preferences in your organization.vso.graph — verify that the user installing or purchasing the app holds the required Project Collection Administrator role.vso.memberentitlementmanagement — read the number of billable users in your Azure DevOps organization to determine the correct license tier.vso.work — read work items and field data to display them in the sheet view.vso.work_write — save changes made to work items directly from the sheet back to Azure DevOps.
