Notify team on high-priority bugs in Azure DevOps
When a Bug is created with Priority 1, email the team in Azure DevOps.
By using this template, you can automatically send an email notification to your team whenever a bug with Priority 1 is created. You'll need to specify the email recipients before enabling the automation.
Prerequisite: Install Automations App on your Azure DevOps organization
Trigger — Work Item Created
This trigger activates when a new work item of type 'Bug' is created in your Azure DevOps project. It initiates the automation flow.
Configured in this template
- Work item types: Bug
You can customize
- Change the work item type to include other types like 'Task' or 'Issue'.
Condition — Work item fields
This condition checks if the newly created bug has a Priority of 1. The automation will only proceed if this condition is met.
Configured in this template
- Check: This work item
- Require: All of Items
- Field conditions: Priority = 1
- Match logic: All conditions must match (AND)
- Related work item conditions: (none)
You can customize
- Adjust the priority level to trigger notifications for different priorities.
- Add more field conditions to refine the trigger criteria.
Action — Send customized email
This action sends an HTML email to the specified recipients. The email includes details about the high-priority bug and a direct link to it.
Configured in this template
- To: (empty — add recipients)
- From: notifications@documentero.com
- Subject: `High priority bug:
{trigger.Title}` - Body (HTML): `<p>A Priority 1 bug was created: <a href="
{trigger.Url}">#{trigger.Id}{trigger.Title}</a></p>`
You can customize
- Add additional recipients to the 'To' field.
- Modify the email subject or body to include more information or different formatting.
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Common questions
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