Azure Kanban Board Columns State Mapping

Question

How can I add values to the State Mapping Column Settings on the Kanban board? My project shows currenly only 3 options. New, Approved and Committed. I need to add Pending Verification and Cannot Reproduce states, otherwise I cannot move items to the respective columns. The items desapear when I do so as my columns have the wrong state assigned.

I could not find anything online. I tried to find this information on the WIT xml files. No luck so far

TIA

UPDATE Nov 16, 2022

This is what I see when I select Process. I don't have dropdown options or links. I can only export the process. Would that be because I don't have the correct permission to change it? if so, would you know what permissions I would need?

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UPDATE Nov 17, 2022

As I continue investigating this, so far I have figured these out:

1. Process Templates are used to create projects, but once the project is created no link is created to the process used.
2. There is a tool I can use on VS to View/Edit the current WIT of my projects. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.msdevlabs-pte (works with VS2019, but not 2022)
3. I was able to update my Bug and Backlog Item WIT using (exporting, changing the XML, and importing it back to the server.
4. My bugs and backlog items now have Pending Verification and Cannot reproduce state. But my Kanban Column mapping state still doesn't show these options. Would that be a bug or am I missing a step here?

Answer 1

Please follow the path: Organization Settings->Boards->process->select Agile Process(for example)->select a work item type ->State And Click new state to add a state value.

For example:

Result

For more information about category states, please refer to doc: How workflow category states are used in Azure Boards backlogs and boards

UPDATE

If you can't see the option Organization settings, please visit the URL:

https://dev.azure.com/{your organization name}/

you will see your organizations and "Organization Settings" is in the lower left corner.

UPDATE11/16

If you can see a Collection Settings in your main page, click "Collection Settings", select "Process" menu and choose a process and click it .

then select a work item type click it and switch to "state".

UPDATE11/18/2022

There is a note:"If a workflow state isn't mapped to a Kanban column, that state doesn't appear on the Kanban board. It's allowed, but we don't recommend it."

please refer to doc: what is workflow state mapping