{"id":10232,"date":"2023-08-09T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T03:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2023-08-09T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T03:04:48","slug":"creating-an-azure-devops-work-item-from-a-teams-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10232","title":{"rendered":"Creating an Azure DevOps Work Item From a Teams Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can use Power Automate<\/a> to create an ADO work item (bug, user story, etc) when a user posts into specific Teams channel.<\/p>\n

Log into Power Automate and create a new workflow. Find a Teams trigger that suits your need \u2013 in my case, I wanted to use a key word (you could even use different<\/em> key words to create work items in different projects or with different content). Note that automation cycles accrue based on execution — so if you elect to link up to a busy Teams channel and filter for keywords to indicate you want an ADO item created, you may be “wasting” workflow cycles. In our case, I have a “user group” Teams space and set up a special channel where users can submit bug and feature requests. This means workflow cycles are accrued when someone specifically wishes to create an ADO item not <\/em>when messages are posted into the user group’s general chat channels.<\/p>\n

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You can source messages from channels or group chats in the \u201cMessage type\u201d selection. You cannot use hash-tags as key words! The workflow execution reports a gateway error. Select the Team and channel(s) that you want the workflow to monitor.<\/p>\n

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Add a new step to \u201ccreate a work item\u201d from Azure DevOps<\/p>\n

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Configure the project into which you want to create the work item \u2013 the organization and project name, the type of work item, and content of the work item.<\/p>\n

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If you want to set priority, add an assignment, etc \u2013 click on \u201cShow advanced options\u201d. I added a few fields to provide a clue as to where the bug report came from.<\/p>\n

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Save the workflow and post a message in your channel with the key word. Go into the ADO project work items; your Teams-initiated bug should be there.<\/p>\n

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You can use Power Automate to create an ADO work item (bug, user story, etc) when a user posts into specific Teams channel. Log into Power Automate and create a new workflow. Find a Teams trigger that suits your need \u2013 in my case, I wanted to use a key word (you could even use …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510,677],"tags":[1091,1092,666,686,1889,1890,665,1891],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ado","category-office-365","tag-ado","tag-azure-devops","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-ms-teams","tag-power-automate","tag-powerautomate","tag-teams","tag-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10240,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}