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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

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Posted on 20 Mar 2020 18:26:58 by Microsoft Employee

I'm trying to create a Flow that sends me an email when an Azure DevOps item is Assigned to an alias. For the field "Assigned To" I've tried listing it as alias@microsoft.com, [TEAM FOUNDATION]\alias, and just alias, but none are triggering the Flow. 

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  • wusian1203 Profile Picture
    13 on 03 Jun 2021 at 11:11:24
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

    hi @jecota,

     

    I have same problem, too.

    Do you solve it now?

    I tried to use 'custom item', input our team members' mail address(like abc@xxx.com, def@xxx.com), but it cannot be trigged either.😥

  • v-bacao-msft Profile Picture
    on 26 Mar 2020 at 05:20:42
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

     

    Hi @jecota ,

     

    Maybe we could not assign a work item to a group.

    The hint in this filed is “The name of the member who currently owns the work item”.

    So, I am afraid that it is a limitation to configure this field.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/connectors/visualstudioteamservices/#when-a-work-item-is-assigned

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    Best Regards,

  • jecota Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on 25 Mar 2020 at 21:15:06
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

    Hi @v-bacao-msft,

     

    I've updated my function to premium to match yours and have identified that the problem is still with the Assigned To field. If I assign it to my individual email, the flow triggers successfully, the problem is I'm trying to assign it to an aad team created within Azure DevOps and this doesn't seem to trigger correctly. The long identifier "vstfs:///Framework/IdentityDomain/..." is what shows up for me in the dropdown once I select the Team Name.

     

    Does this function just not work with an aad group?

     

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  • v-bacao-msft Profile Picture
    on 25 Mar 2020 at 06:13:22
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

     

    Hi @jecota ,

     

    A few of my concerns are that your function displays preview, and mine is premium.

     

    The second is that when I assign Assigned To, I choose the email address of the relevant user, but the configuration on your side seems to be different. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with vstfs. Will this affect the triggering of Flow?

     

    Finally, when you test, make sure that you assign users to the RDQuota work item.

     

    Best Regards,

  • jecota Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on 24 Mar 2020 at 19:10:52
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

    @v-bacao-msft, yes I specified a Work Item Type and Saved after all changes.

     

    Below is my configuration and it is not able to be triggered as I believe the "Assigned To" is not being recognized. 

     

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  • v-bacao-msft Profile Picture
    on 24 Mar 2020 at 07:00:29
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

     

    Hi @jecota ,

     

    Have you specified a work item type?

    Following is my flow configuration, I picked the option from the dropdown list to configure these four fields.

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    And the flow could be triggered normally, the following is the flow run history:

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    Have you saved the update after you have assigned to one user?😄

     

    Best Regards,

  • jecota Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on 23 Mar 2020 at 16:47:39
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

    I chose a Team Name from the dropdown and was able to find the correct Assigned To starting with "vstfs:///Framework/IdentityDomain/" but once saved, this still doesn't trigger any action. 

     

    I also checked the Organization and Project and they all match.

  • v-bacao-msft Profile Picture
    on 23 Mar 2020 at 09:23:28
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias

     

    Hi @jecota ,

     

    It is recommended to pick Team Name and Assigned To from the dropdown list.

    When you test, please ensure you have assigned an item in the specified Organization and Project.

     

    Best Regards,

  • Jcook Profile Picture
    7,779 Most Valuable Professional on 21 Mar 2020 at 03:47:28
    Re: Flow not being triggered when Azure DevOps item Assigned To an alias
    Hello @jecota

    Could you Share a configuration of your flow.
    What exactly are you referring to with alias, is this just a assign to name

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