Linked Tasks Automation

Linked-Tasks-Automation

1-Click Child-Links is an Azure DevOps extension for creating multiple work items as children via single click, where each work item is based on a single pre-defined template.

Azure DevOps offers team-specific work item templating as core functionality with which you can quickly apply pre-populated values for your team's commonly used fields per work item type.

The child work items created by this extension are based on the hierarchy of work item types defined in the process template (Agile, Scrum, CMMI).

For example, if you're using a process inherited from the agile template with a custom requirement-level type called defect and 3 task templates defined, using 1-click on a user story or defect will generate three child tasks, one for each defined template.

It's also possible to limit which parent work items apply to each template in one of two ways:

Simplified: put the list of applicable parent work item types in the child template's description field, like this: [Product Backlog Item,Defect]

Complex: put a minified (single line) JSON string into the child template's description field, like this:

{
    "applywhen": 
    {
        "System.State": "Approved",
        "System.Tags" : ["Blah", "ClickMe"],
        "System.WorkItemType": "Product Backlog Item"
    },
    "linkTo":["ToAllOtherChilds", "ToAllJustCreatedTasks", "PreviouslyJustCreatedTask", "SecondPreviouslyJustCreatedTask", "FirstJustCreatedTask", "SecondJustCreatedTask"]
}

Define team templates

Manage work item templates

Create / open a work item

Find 1-Click Child-Links on toolbar menu

1-Click Child-Links on work item form menu

Done

You should now have children associated with the open work item.

Usage

Clone the repository
npm install to install required local dependencies
npm install -g grunt to install a global copy of grunt (unless it's already installed)
grunt to build and package the application

Grunt

Basic grunt tasks are defined:

package-dev - Builds the development version of the vsix package
package-release - Builds the release version of the vsix package
publish-dev - Publishes the development version of the extension to the marketplace using tfx-cli
publish-release - Publishes the release version of the extension to the marketplace using tfx-cli

Note: To avoid tfx prompting for your token when publishing, login in beforehand using tfx login and the service uri of https://marketplace.visualstudio.com.

Debugging your extension

In order to debug the extension using Visual Studio or Browser Developer Tools and speed up the development without redeploying extension each time you change source code, you need change manifest adding baseUri property:

{
 
    "baseUri": "https://localhost:5501",
 
}

Contributors

Credits

Clone from https://github.com/cschleiden/vsts-extension-ts-seed-simple

Sycz Mariusz