Syntax for Azure Boards Work Items
Azure Boards work items are represented as AzureDevOpsProjectName-NUMBER in FlexDeploy. For example, Trial1-10, Denver-2 where Trial1 and Denver are names of Azure DevOps projects. See image below for reference.
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Preparing for Azure Boards Integration with FlexDeploy
You need to create an OAuth Token for use in FlexDeploy. This token will be entered for Azure DevOps Personal Access Token on Issue Tracking Instance.
Go to Azure Boards and log in as the user you want to use for FlexDeploy to Azure Boards Integration.
Generate a Personal Access Token in Azure Boards following this guide.
Choose an expiration date based on your security policies. Shorter expiration dates will require updating the ITS more frequently.
Choose the following OAuth scopes to comment on and change status of issues:
Create Issue Tracking Instance
An Azure Boards instance looks like this.
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Supported Azure DevOps API Versions
5.1-preview, 5.2-preview, 5.3-preview, 5.4-preview, 5.5-preview, 5.6-preview, 5.7-preview, 5.8-preview, 5.9-preview,
6.0-preview, 6.1-preview, 6.2-preview, 6.3-preview, 6.4-preview, 6.5-preview, 6.6-preview, 6.7-preview, 6.8-preview, 6.9-preview,
7.0-preview, 7.1-preview.
Configure Folder or Project for Issue Tracking
Configure Azure Boards Issue Tracking Instance on your project or parent folder. Issue Tracking configurations are inherited by sub-folder and projects. This configuration will allow you to integrate Azure Work Items with your builds. See Configure Project for Issue Tracking for more details.
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Optionally configure for Comment and/or Status update after build or deploy execution.
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Linking Azure Work Items with FlexDeploy Builds
Now you are ready to link Azure Boards issues with project builds. In order to link
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See Link Work Items to Project Build for more information about linking Work Items to builds.
Examples
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