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The squeak
The squeak

Reputation: 79

Using Azure Devops: How to add a table

I'm new to Azure DevOps but my company has moved over to it from Jira. I've googled it and checked with ChatGPT on how to add a table to a ticket description and all the sources seem to say that I should use the markdown approach.

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
|   Cell   |   Cell   |   Cell   |
|   Cell   |   Cell   |   Cell   |

but when I attempt this, the table doesn't render on saving. How should I be doing this instead. There doesn't seem to be a direct answer for this.

I was expecting a full table to render as in other systems. However the text remains unchanged and unedited.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13590

Answers (1)

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 59035

The documentation doesn't say anything about work items (you are probably incorrectly calling them "tickets"; please learn and use the correct terminology for the platform to prevent confusion). Work items do not fully support markdown, although some markdown features such as code snippets work.

They also, unfortunately, don't readily support creating tables. You can copy and paste a table from a different tool such a Word, but you can't natively create a table within the work item editor. Ref: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/make-it-easy-to-insert-tables-into-a-work-item-des/1108159

Markdown support is available in preview for comments as of a few months ago, although I haven't tried it out and can provide no further guidance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2023/sprint-222-update#azure-boards-1

Upvotes: 4

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