Personal Work Hub

Everything that is waiting for you in Azure DevOps, on one page. The extension adds a My Work page to the Boards menu and gathers your work items, pull requests and pipeline runs from every project in the collection.

What it shows

The page has three sections:

Work Items

• Assigned to me: work items assigned to you
• Created by me: work items you created
• Closed, completed and cancelled work items are hidden by default; one checkbox brings them back
• State badges are coloured: completed and closed states in green, cancelled states in red

Pull Requests

• Created by me: your active pull requests, with each reviewer shown in the colour of their vote so you can see who the pull request is waiting for
• Assigned to me for review: pull requests where you are a reviewer, either directly or through a team or group you belong to. The list shows which group the assignment came from and your vote
• If you have not voted but another member voted on behalf of your group, the list says so ("Group approved")
• One checkbox adds completed pull requests to both lists

Pipelines

• Build: the last 50 builds that ran for you
• Release: the last 50 releases you created, with the status of each stage
• Waiting for my approval: release stages waiting for your approval or for a group you belong to

Someone else's work

• Type a name or account in the Person box and pick a colleague: the same six lists are shown for that person. One click returns to your own work
• You see only what you are already allowed to see; the extension adds no access

On every list

• Date range: pick a start and an end date; the page opens on the last 30 days. Active pull requests and pending approvals are always shown, whatever their age
• Search across all visible columns
• Drop-down filters built from the values in the list: type, state, project, repository, creator, vote, pipeline, status
• Every row links to the work item, pull request or run
• Counts for every list are visible from the top of the page

The page refreshes every 5 minutes while its tab is visible and has a Refresh button.

Languages

The page is available in English and Turkish. Azure DevOps Server 2022 does not give extensions the language of your profile, so the page follows your browser language: Turkish for Turkish browsers, English for every other language. The menu entry is always "My Work".

Requirements

• Azure DevOps Server 2022
• The page shows only what you are already allowed to see in each project

Permissions

The extension is read-only. It changes nothing and sends no data outside your Azure DevOps server.

Known limitations

• Only classic release approvals are listed; approvals of YAML pipeline environments are not. Some servers, Azure DevOps Server 2022 among them, do not let a read-only extension read the approvals list; approvals are then taken from the deployments waiting for approval, and the list is not shown if that is refused too. Approvals are re-read when the page opens, on Refresh and every 30 minutes.
• Each work item list shows at most 200 items, each pull request list at most 100, each pipeline list the last 50. A note appears when a list hits its limit.
• Pull requests assigned through a group are found by scanning the active pull requests of the collection, up to 5,000.
• Completed pull requests in the review list are only those where you are a reviewer yourself, not those assigned only to one of your groups.
• The states treated as closed are a fixed list of English and Turkish names (Closed, Done, Completed, Removed, Cancelled, Kapalı, Tamamlandı, İptal). A custom state with another name is treated as open.
• Releases are those you created; a deployment you started on someone else's release is not listed.

Release notes

• 0.9.4: approvals are also looked up in the stages of releases in progress
• 0.9.3: approvals are read from the deployments waiting for approval on servers that do not allow reading the approvals list
• 0.9.2: the approvals list is hidden on servers that do not allow reading it; a note says when the date range hides entries
• 0.9.1: a request the server rejects no longer opens the browser's sign-in prompt
• 0.9.0: release approvals waiting for you, reviewer votes on your pull requests, active pull requests no longer hidden by the date range
• 0.8.1: people are found by the start of their name, account or e-mail
• 0.8.0: view the work of another person
• 0.7.1: lighter on the server: no refresh while the tab is in the background, fewer requests when the date range changes
• 0.7.0: date range filter with start and end dates, last 30 days by default
• 0.6.0: drop-down filters, coloured state badges, group votes on pull requests
• 0.5.0: group-assigned pull requests found for users in hundreds of groups; Turkish state names
• 0.4.0: renamed to Personal Work Hub
• 0.3.0: three sections (Work Items, Pull Requests, Pipelines) with two lists each
• 0.2.0: completed pull requests, clearer names
• 0.1.0: first version

License

Released under the MIT License. Developed by Emin Turan.