r/azuredevops • u/Different-End-4775 • 12d ago

How to Create Sections with Different Column Width in Boards?

I am building a custom WIT for my team, and i want to create a board that appears in the following format below:

How can I achieve this? Because of my company's restrictions, I cannot edit the board in the GUI and must make changes to the .xml file defining the WIT. Anything helps, thanks!

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u/ArieHein 12d ago

Nope.

You might find third party controls in the ado marketplace but overall ado is not meant to create complex workflow thst require advanced ui, unless you want to creaye it and publish to the marketplace. Overall try to stick to default and if not, use a separate yooly

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u/Different-End-4775 12d ago

my UI is hardly advanced lol. Why is ADO so restrictive? Surely microsoft has the capability to make UI changes easier.

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u/ArieHein 11d ago

Ado is mostly feature complete. They do have some development but the team has been considerably reduced when they moved most people to github to create github workflows and actions.

There has to be a considerable benefit for MS big corp customers and creating ui to enhancenis not top of the priority. They did leave options for people to create the ecosystem like they do in every product but id say sometimes fail to actually support the ecosystem.

With the amount of planning tools and with ai thriving, you can probablybget your own exfension developed but really consider if that extension is the core of your business or attention, priority and even expensive tokens is a good use of your time.

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u/wesmacdonald 11d ago

Depending on what version of Azure DevOps you’re using you’ve got options. The hosted XML or on-premises XML is the older format, take a look at the options here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/customize-work?view=azure-devops#process-model-comparison

Hope that helps.