Pending Approvals Check

The idea for Abdulelah Alfaris and development by Mohamed Elarousy

• Overview
• Features
• Prerequisites
• How To Use
• Support

Overview

The Pending Approvals Check extension adds a task to chek for any pending approvals related to the current Definition and if there are any pending approvals you can cancel current release and send reminder mail to the approver, or you can reject the pending approvals and resume the current release..

Features

The Pending Approvals Check task performing Azure DevOps release pipeline execution and provides various customization settings.

It uses either personal access token (PAT) to connect to projects' pipelines.

• Chek for any pending approvals
• Cancel current release
• Reject the pending approvals

Prerequisites

To perform release pipeline the task requires personal access token with specific access to target project' pipelines to be able to reject approvals and cancel releases.

You must allow scripts to access OAuth Token

Please refer to Azure DevOps permissions and security roles documentation for more details.

How To Use

1. Add Pending Approvals Check task to your release pipeline
2. Add ACCESSTOKEN
3. Select 'Cancel Current Release' or 'Reject The Pending Approval'
4. Add mail Settings and smtpsettings, this task is tested with outlook (smtp.office365.com) and gmail (smtp.gmail.com)
5. if you will use Outlook (smtp.office365.com) add SMTP Port (587) and SSL (false)
6. for Gmail (smtp.gmail.com) add SMTP Port (465) and SSL (true) and you must create App Password to use it (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en)

Release Strategy

You can choose different strategy for approval-check :

• Cancel Current Release
• Reject The Pending Approval

Cancel Current Release

will cancel the current release and send reminder mail to the approver.

Reject The Pending Approval

Will reject the pending approvals and resume the current release..

Advanced

Support

For aditional information and support please refer to project repository.

For help with Azure DevOps and release pipelines please refer to official documentation.# Pending Approvals Check

Pending Approvals Check