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Hyperlink to Azure DevOps Work Item (Bug) is not a clickable link in MS Teams chat (desktop), but is in mobile app

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Posted on by BonnieDenham6

Hi all, I've tried so many things, and have been unsuccessful in getting a clickable hyperlink to a Work Item (bug) in a MS teams chat. My Flow is below. The resulting chat post in MS Teams has the correct path, but it's not a clickable hyperlink. In mobile app, it's a clickable hyperlink. I really want a clickable hyperlink in desktop app.. Not able to hard-code due to dynamic content of the work item id for new incoming bugs/tickets.

My flow is:

Resulting (non-clickable) path from MS Teams (desktop app) chat:

https://dev.azure.com/company-name/team-project-name/_workitems/edit/123456

How do I make that booger a clickable hyperlink like it is in the Teams mobile app?! I even tried using the hyperlink icon with my variable in it..

Thanks!

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Hi @BonnieDenham6,

Can you try and add a HTML <a> tag to your WorkItemUrl variable? Btw, you can directly add it to the Initialize variable action. You don't need to use a Set variable action for this.

Below is an example

I also included some logic to dynamically retrieve the Organization name and project name from the trigger action. The trigger function is used to retrieve the account and project input parameters.

<a href="https://dev.azure.com/@{trigger()['inputs']['parameters']['account']}/@{trigger()['inputs']['parameters']['project']}/_workitems/edit/@{triggerOutputs()?['body/id']}">https://dev.azure.com/@{trigger()['inputs']['parameters']['account']}/@{trigger()['inputs']['parameters']['project']}/_workitems/edit/@{triggerOutputs()?['body/id']}</a>

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This worked perfectly for me, thank you! I was having the same issue but trying to send a clickable work item link in an email action. The initialize variable syntax did the trick.

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