Work Item Sheets
The spreadsheet view your Azure DevOps team has been waiting for.
Work Item Sheets gives you a fast, Excel-like interface to view, edit, and manage work items across multiple projects — all without leaving Azure DevOps. Stop clicking into individual items. Start working at the speed your team actually moves.
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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.
- 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.
- Feels like Excel, lives in DevOps — familiar keyboard navigation, column resizing, inline editing. Zero learning curve.
- 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.
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
🎬 Video walkthrough coming soon — see the app in action in under 2 minutes.
In the meantime, the screenshots below cover the key flows.
Once the demo is live, it will be linked here.
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
Features
- 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 sheets on things that matters
- 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
Work Item Sheets is priced per Azure DevOps organization, based on the number of billable users. Teams of up to 10 users are free forever.
| Users |
Monthly |
Yearly |
| 1–10 |
Free |
Free |
| 11–25 |
$49/mo |
$490/yr |
| 26–50 |
$99/mo |
$990/yr |
| 51–100 |
$179/mo |
$1,790/yr |
| 101–250 |
$299/mo |
$2,990/yr |
| 251–500 |
$449/mo |
$4,490/yr |
| 501–1,000 |
$649/mo |
$6,490/yr |
| 1,001–2,500 |
$899/mo |
$8,990/yr |
| 2,501–5,000 |
$1,299/mo |
$12,990/yr |
| 5,001+ |
$1,799/mo |
$17,990/yr |
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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.pes for specific reasons:
