I'm in the process of setting up an in-house Azure DevOps environment. But I'm stuck at a point where I need to set up an email integration.
Question: is it possible within Azure DevOps to create a work item (in general/specific to a project) upon receiving an email?
Trigger: Users report issues via a generic email address (like support email)
Manage: Azure DevOps to capture this email (monitor inbox of this generic email address)
Output: A new work item is created with the contents/subject from the captured email.
Note: Issues could either be a bug, minor usability or other supports
I did look into MS Power Automate using flow. But not ideal in my
case
Searched market place for a possible plugin. But couldn't find one
which does this
Thanks in advance for any help or direction.
Thanks you for all fellow contributors who suggested alternative approach. Unfortunately, these suggestions doesn't solve my concern at its level and hence I raised a feature request in Azure DevOps Server forum. You may find the request here and please vote it if you think it is relevant to you.
The easy way is to use the TFS Work Items from Outlook tool.
It's give you the ability to create a work item from outlook and also create rules for create work items automatically (with templates).
Note: the name is TFS Work Items but it should works also with ADO.
Azure DevOps does not contain feature to create work items through email. You can try:
TeamBox (pop3)
As you mentioned MS Power Automate or Azure Logic App.
Create your solution with existing resources. As example: Mail.dll - .NET email component (IMAP, POP3, S/MIME), Create Work Item in Team Services Through API
As Shamrai Aleksander mentioned above, for now Azure Devops Service doesn't support creating WITs from email.
Not sure if above extensions shared by Shamrai Aleksander and Shayki Abramczyk meet your needs well, I think you can also consider posting a feature request if you do want such feature comes true in Azure Devops Service. Since it's a good idea, feel free to suggest a feature to User Voice Forum of ADO.
Your requirements seems to be similar to this one which is posted in 2019, I recommend you can post a new one to share your feedback. Also, share the link in your question and members who interested in that would vote for you! Hope it helps.
This is a good use case for a Logic App. You can create an app that triggers on a new email, using the Outlook connector, and then create a work item using the DevOps connector.
You can also add logic in the middle (using the Control connector and variables, for instance), to assess the content of the email and dynamically set the target project, work item type, or tags.
You can user Microsoft Power Automate to do that.
You activator would be receiving an email and the rest of the workflow is up to you. It creates issues correctly and there is even a workaround to add files to the issue with power automate.
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I am looking for APIs to get list of run instances of a workflow on SharePoint Online.
From Microsoft documentation I can get list of workflows in the tenant.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/web-api
I would like to get all running workflows of a particular workflow, not only assigned to me
As far as I am aware that Web API does not have an entity for the cloud flow runs (only the desktop flow ones, which is the flowsession entity).
However, you should still be able to use the Service.flow.microsoft.com approach.
For example Stefan Strube has a nice blog on how to create a custom connector for this:
https://2die4it.com/2020/07/08/custom-connector-to-get-flow-run-history/
I have a single-tenant logic app and a workflow under it that needs a configurable input. In a multi-tenant logic app, one can define parameters through the azure portal and reference them in workflow definition (actions/ triggers). Is this not possible with a single-tenant logic app?
I am not able to find the answer in the documentation.
I know a deployment template should consult parameters file for this, however, I still have the above question specifically if I am doing stuff through the portal.
Edit 7/12
I am referring to the parameters concept explained here, and not the parameters tab of the triggers or actions. See below the parameters that we can define through the portal when working with the consumption logic app.
The answer is: not yet. Support for parameters in the designer (and therefore in the Azure Portal) is on its way, but not available yet.
In VS Code, you can create a parameters.json file.
But in the portal, there's no option (yet) to create/edit parameters.
Bec Lyons (Microsoft) demoed a version of the designer with this in it, although I can't remember if this was in the June Logic Apps Live session, or in the July Integration Down Under session.
In any case, the only currently supported way to do this is to create a parameters.json file and upload it.
You can either do this from VS Code or Azure CLI (using the preview logicapps CLI extension) OR you can FTP to your Logic App and upload it via an FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) - you can get the FTP login details by clicking the "Get Publish Profile" button in the overview of your Logic Apps Standard resource.
Once they release support for this in the Portal/Designer, I'll update this answer.
Also, worth noting that as of this date (July 2021), there are issues using parameters in Managed API Triggers - not sure yet if this is by design, or if it's a bug. Specifically the FileSystem, FTP and FTPWithSSH (SFTP) triggers.
Hope this helps. Probably not the answer you were looking for, though!
Azure boards MS Team integration. Only showing Issues or Epics, where are my work items?
I added a tab into a Team channel, and I can see Issues, but there is not option for showing the Work Item field?
On the Azure Boards website I see both fields: Issues and Work items.
Here is no Work Item field
This is the website showing both types at once
As I understand, you are not able to see work item field.
If you need to see work item field,
you need to connect to a project and not just a repository.
From the connect to a Project dialog.
Use CTRL-Shift to select your options and then choose Connect.
The new Work Items experience is available when you connect to a Azure Repos Git repository.
For further reading please follow the document.
You need to set up and manage subscriptions for creating and updating work items. You can create subscriptions to monitor work items at any time using the #azure boards subscriptions command.
Please go through the documentation for more info.
wow I can believe after almost a year nobody replied you. You can set it up in the Organization Settings > Boards > Settings then you can see the process selected. e.g Agile, Basic (what you mentioned) Scrum, etc.
I hope helped someone after this.
Is there any way to receive an email notification when you are added to a project in Azure DevOps? I've seen a few different ones around builds and pipelines, etc. but nothing for being added to a project.
We've got a number of projects and people may be added well in advance of a work item being assigned to them (for information more than anything). Just wondered if there was a quick way of being able to set this so people have less of an excuse to say they've not had sight of something important.?
receive an email notification when you are added to a project
I am afraid that this is currently not possible in azure devops. Azure devops supports sending email notifications when inviting users into the organization, but it does not provide a subscription to add users to the project.
Apart from the negative answer, I think what you want is a good idea! So I post a feature request here in DC forum, which is our main forum for product suggestions. After suggest raised, you can vote and add your comments for this feedback. The product team would provide the updates if they view it. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps.
I'm trying to migrate Azure Boards from one organization to another. I dont see any documentation from MS for org to org migration.
Thank you Hugh Lin-MSFT for providing the details. Re-iterating here for broader audience.
If you are referring to moving work items from one organization to another, you can use the Excel to export and import the work items to achieve this .
First, you need to create a query to get work items, then install the Azure DevOps Office Integration Tool in azure devops , in Excel click on the Team button and then New List to get data from Azure DevOps to Excel, and finally publish work items to destination organization.
For detailed steps, please refer to this blog.
In addition, another way is that you could think about using third party extension tool like the Migration Tools for Azure DevOps . You can refer to this similar case.
Hope this information helps.