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Shortcut

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Manage Shortcut workflows from your VSCode
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VSCode Shortcut Extension

This extension helps you manage your Shortcut stories from within VSCode. It seamlessly integrates with Shortcut to display assigned stories across all your workspaces. It also displays stories that have a task assigned to you.

Features

  • View all pending tasks from your Shortcut stories across all your workspaces
  • View all assigned stories across all your workspaces
  • Open stories from within VSCode
  • Mark as task as done from within VSCode
  • Copy the github branch helper for an assigned story

Requirements

  • A Shortcut account and API token
  • Visual Studio Code version 1.60.0 or higher

Extension Settings

This extension has the following settings:

  • shortcut.apiTokens
  • shortcut.hideEmptyWorkspaces

Setup

  1. Install the extension from the VS Code marketplace
  2. Open VS Code settings
  3. Add your Shortcut API tokens for each workspace in the shortcut.apiTokens settings
  4. The settings should look like this:
{
    "shortcut.apiTokens": {
        "Workspace One": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
        "Workspace Two": "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
    }
}

Extension settings

Usage

  1. There is a new menu item in the activity bar called "Shortcut"

Shortcut View

  1. Clicking on the menu item will open the Shortcut view

Shortcut View

  1. The view will display all stories assigned to you across all your workspaces in a tree
  2. The view will also display all stories that have a task assigned to you
  3. There is an action on the story node to open the story in Shortcut
  4. There is an action on the task node to mark the task as done
  5. There is an action on the story node to copy the github branch helper for an assigned story

Known Issues

Please take a look at the issues page for any known issues.

See CHANGELOG for Release Notes

Contributing

Found a bug or have a feature request? Please open an issue on our GitHub repository. Also take a look at documentation for more information on how to contribute to this project.

Enjoy managing your Shortcut stories directly in VSCode!

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