The Item Drawer is the panel that opens when you click into a work item. You can tailor what it shows for each item type: which tabs appear and in what order, which sidebar fields appear and in what order, and which custom fields are promoted to their own top-level sidebar pill.
This keeps the most relevant information front and center for each kind of work, and removes clutter from fields and tabs that an item type rarely uses.
Both customization tools live in Organization Settings. Reach it from the side navigation by clicking Configure Settings.
In the left navigation of Organization Settings, look under the Other group (its header is shown in uppercase purple text). You will find two separate entries:
The pages open with the headers Manage Workspace Tab Order and Manage Sidebar Field Order.
Each page lists one row per item type. The left column is headed Item Type, and the right column is headed Tab Order or Sidebar Field Order. Within each row, the tabs or fields appear as draggable pills.
On the Workspace Tab Order page, each item type row shows its Item Drawer tabs as pills. There are eight configurable tabs:
To rearrange tabs, drag a pill by its grabber handle into the order you want. DevStride confirms with a Tab order updated message.
To hide or show a tab, click the eye icon on its pill. The tooltip reads Hide tab or Show tab, and DevStride confirms with Tab hidden or Tab shown.
Hiding or reordering a tab here controls what could show in the drawer. Tabs still respect their built-in rules, so a tab you leave visible may still not appear (or may appear disabled) on a given item:
On the Sidebar Field Order page, each item type row shows its right-sidebar fields as pills. There are twelve core fields:
The Progress Tracker field is the completion donut shown in the item's sidebar.
To rearrange fields, drag a pill by its grabber handle. DevStride confirms with Sidebar field order updated.
To hide or show a field, click the eye icon on its pill. The tooltip reads Hide field or Show field, and DevStride confirms with Field hidden or Field shown.
The Custom Fields pill represents the item type's custom fields grouped together. You can lift individual custom fields out of that group so they appear as their own top-level pills in the sidebar—useful for the few custom fields you want quick access to.
To promote a custom field:
A promoted custom field pill has two controls: a fold icon to return it to the group (tooltip Return to Custom Fields group) and an eye icon to hide or show it. Custom fields still inside the group also have an eye icon for hiding.
If a custom field is later removed from its collection, DevStride automatically clears any promotion of that field from the affected item types, so you do not need to clean it up by hand.