Add charts to a dashboard

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This article explains how to add query-based charts and in-context reports to a dashboard from their respective functional pages. For example, you can add the Team Velocity in-context Analytics report to a dashboard. After adding the report, you can modify the corresponding widget configuration parameters to suit your needs.

Prerequisites

• Dashboard creation: Be the creator of the team dashboard to which you want to add a chart.
• Access:
  • Anyone with access to a project, including stakeholders, can view dashboards.
  • To add, edit, or manage a team dashboard, be a team member and have at least Basic access.
• Permissions: Be a team administrator, a project administrator, or have specific dashboard permissions granted to you.

For more information, see Default permissions and access for charts and dashboards.

Add a work item query or chart

You can add work item queries and charts to a dashboard from the Queries page.

Tip

You can also add a work item query chart widget to a team dashboard.

1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}) and go to your project.

2. Select Boards > Queries > Charts. Queries and charts must be associated with queries under the Shared queries folder.

   

3. From the charts Actions menu, select Add to dashboard.

   

4. Select a dashboard from the dropdown menu, and then select OK.

   

   You can only add charts associated with shared queries. Charts associated with queries under My Queries folder don't display the Add to dashboard option.

Add an in-context work tracking report

You can add each of the in-context Analytics reports to a dashboard.

1. Open the report, select the actions icon, and select Copy to Dashboard.

   

2. Select a dashboard from the dropdown menu, and then select OK.

   

3. (Optional) Open the dashboard and select More actions for the widget to configure the size or change other chart properties.

Add a build history chart

Each time you run a build, it logs information about the build, including:

• Run time
• Errors and warnings
• Status: Completed or Failed

Tip

You can also add this chart to a team dashboard from the widget catalog.

1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}) and go to your project.

2. Select Pipelines > Pipelines to add a build history chart to a team dashboard. The Add to dashboard menu selection is disabled when you don't have permissions to add it to the dashboards of the selected team context.

   The Build summary charts look similar to the following image.

   

3. Hover over a bar to view build information and run time and select a bar to go to the build summary page.

Add a release summary chart

Each time a release gets deployed, it logs information about the release to each of its environments. You can add a release tile to your team dashboard to monitor release progress and gain quick access to each release.

Tip

You can also add this chart to a team dashboard from the widget catalog.

1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}) and go to your project.

2. Select Pipelines > Releases to add a release definition chart to a team dashboard.

   

3. Release pipeline charts show the success (green), in progress (blue), cancellation (red), or nondeployment (grey) to an environment for the current and last four releases:

   

Add a test quality trend chart

You can add trends to the dashboard of the failures and duration of those tests that were run as part of a build.

Tip

You can also add a test result trend chart widget to a dashboard.

1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}) and go to your project.

2. Open a build summary for a build pipeline to which you added tests.

3. Open the Tests page.

4. Select the bar chart for either Test failures or Test duration.

   

5. Open the Actions menu, select Add to dashboard, select the dashboard to add the chart to from the dropdown menu, and then OK.

For more information, see Review automated test results after a build.

Add a markdown repository file to a dashboard

To add a markdown file to a dashboard, you must complete the steps in Add Markdown to a dashboard, Add the Markdown widget.

As you update the Markdown file, changes automatically appear on the dashboard upon refresh.

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