Tie pull request to work items only in the current project in Azure Devops

Question

Within Azure DevOps Server, is there a way to limit the work items that can be tied to a given pull request to only those in the current project? Currently, when submitting a pull request Azure DevOps Server suggests and allows all work items within the project collection to be selected.

Answer 1

Yes there is a way to limit the work items from another project to be selected in current project. You can change the View, create, or modify work items Permissions within an area path. Check Restrict access to view or modify objects

So Let's say there are Project A and B. And Restrict work items in Project B to be selected from Project A. In order to achieve this, you need to set the permissions from Project B. Please refer to below steps:

1,Go the Project setting for Project B --> Click Project configuration under Boards --> Click Areas -->Click the 3dots of the root Areas of Project B --> Click Security

2, In the Search Box search for Project A team(or any team that includes all the users in Project A, if there isnot one, you can create a team in project A to include all the users.). Then set the permission to View work items in this node to Deny.

Then any user in Project A team willnot be able to add the workitems from Project B in a pull request.

Above steps will cause some problem if a user is also in other project team. But you can override the inherited permission for this user by following step 1 to allow the the view permission for this user.

If there are many projects in your collection, you have to set repeat setting above permission for each one of them.

However you can submit a feature request(click suggest a feature and choose Azure devops) that restricting view workitems permission in a Project Level to Microsoft Development team. Hope they will consider implementing this feature.