Azure DevOps - use GUI instead of YAML to edit build pipeline

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Bartosz picture Bartosz · Apr 1, 2019 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

Some time ago Azure DevOps have added a support for YAML build pipelines. This is all nice for power users (I get it, pros only use command line & plain text tools, GUI is for weak) for quite a few reasons.

Is there a way to go back to a GUI (classic editor) to edit an existing pipeline? I have disabled the feature

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as described here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/get-started-designer?view=azure-devops&tabs=new-nav , however it only helps for new pipelines.

Somehow I haven't yet memorized the syntax and entire set of configuration options for pipeline definitions, so...

I'd like to edit my existing pipeline using the GUI, as I don't have time to read the docs and look for what exactly string do I need to add into which place of YAML in order to set some simple options, however, I am always taken to the YAML view when I try to edit a pipeline (which was created visually some time ago).

Is there a way to open the GUI editor?

Answer

4c74356b41 picture 4c74356b41 · Apr 1, 2019

for a pipeline thats using yaml - no. you can only configure it in yaml and you can not switch back to UI experience.

If the pipeline is UI - it will continue to work as it was working.

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