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Hello I'm quite new Power Automate and I really can't solve how to add a discussion comment in a DevOps Bug . The available columns for updating a work item don't have the "Discussion" column and that's the field I wish to update. I'm using adaptive cards to change both the State and add discussion/comments to it but so far only the State column is available. Any help is appreciated thank you!

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Expiscornovus 33,828 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Revlock97,

As far as you cannot add a comment via the update item action. It does not have any field for this in the settings.

As a workaround you could use the Azure DevOps REST API together with a Send an HTTP request action (Azure DevOps connector). There is Add Comments method available in that API:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/comments/add?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1

Below is an example of that approach.

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@{variables('Project')}/_apis/wit/workItems/@{outputs('Get_work_item_details')?['body/id']}/comments?api-version=7.1-preview.3

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{ "text": "Hello World from Power Automate!" }

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Revlock97 187 on at

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Hello @Expiscornovus ,
Actually I found a way using the Other fields row and inputting "History" in the Key Value. It worked as intended.
I referenced it from here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Adding-a-comment-to-a-DevOps-Work-Item-using-a-given-user/td-p/370077

Which also lead to this problem: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/User-specific-Comments-in-Azure-work-item/m-p/1638934#M94699

But thank you so much! I'll also try this work around now 😁

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Hi @Revlock97,

Great, I did not know it was possible via the History field.

I am definitely going to try that as well. Thanks for sharing!

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ns522101 2 on at

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hello @Revlock97 @Expiscornovus can you please advise how you had {/}Output value in the History other field ? I don't think it is an expression. My requirement is to add a comment to a work item when any User Story drop down value is selected as show in screenshot#2. Please advise how to achieve this via PA?

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From the reference linked here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Adding-a-comment-to-a-DevOps-Work-Item-using-a-given-user/m-p/370763#M41600

In the other discussion the author indicated “The trigger is an email arriving, the formatted body is the ‘output’ seen in”

So the Output value was coming from the received email body (assumed) to be formatted as html…

1. I have not tested, but it seems that any string should be valid for a comment
2. if that string includes basic html wrapped in a paragraph tag it should apply the appropriate rich text formatting: <p>{html formatted text}</p>

good luck!

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