Edit Tasks in Coda

Directly edit your issues in Coda and push the changes back to ADO to increase efficiency—think more productive stand-ups and triage meetings.

The two-way sync feature of the ADO Queries table allows editors of the doc to directly change the properties of an item, such as its description, title, assignee, and more. And then push those edits back to ADO.

Let's look at how to do that.

Enabling two-way sync

Once you’ve completed the steps outlined in

Bring ADO items into Coda⁠

, follow the instructions below to enable two-way sync.

In any query table, double-click on the “Title” cell (or any other editable cell).

Click on Turn on two-way sync in the dialog that pops up.

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Edit two-way sync options as needed.

Once you turn on two-way sync, a panel on the right hand of your screen will show up with a few different options. Some options that you can choose are:

Send edits immediately: By default, tables in Coda don’t send their edits back to the source (in this case, ADO) unless a “Send Edits” button is manually pressed by a user. You can override that so all edits are sent back to ADO the moment they are made by toggling this feature on.

Write mode: By default, the write-mode is on “Private”. This means that those editing an ADO table in Coda will need to sign in with their own account to edit. You can change this to “Shared” if you want others to edit ADO tasks as you.

Using two-way sync

To use two-way sync, start by editing the rows and columns in the table just like you would any other Coda table. Note: certain columns may not be editable, as not all fields in ADO can be changed by the user (such as the created date/time of a task).

Cells that have been changed, but not yet pushed back to ADO, will be annotated with a blue triangle in the corner.

To send your changes to ADO, push the “Send Edits” button located in the header of the table unless you’ve toggled on “Send Edits Immediately” as outlined in the steps above.

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