Mention person in azure devops work item

[Phani]

Is there any way to mention a owner of that work item in discussion section by adding some comments from flow 

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @Phani,

This should be possible via the Send an HTTP request to Azure DevOps action and the add Comment method of the Azure DevOps Rest API 6.0:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/comments/add?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0

You can use a html in the text of comment to refer to mention the user. Use a hyperlink and the data-vss-mention with the specific userid of the devops user you want to mention.

Below is an example of that.
Replace ad96260c-ea80-6eeb-93b0-c942399631d0 by the correct userid.

{"text": "<div><a href=\"#\" data-vss-mention=\"version:2.0,ad96260c-ea80-6eeb-93b0-c942399631d0\">@John Doe</a>&nbsp; Test mentioning</div>"}

[Phani]

@Expiscornovus : Thanks for the solution but how can we get the user guid ( I can only have their alias or fullname ) 

[Phani]

@Expiscornovus  : I got the user id using GETUser from AAD but even though have mentioned it , the user not getting any DevOps notifications email when someone mentioned you but they are getting same notification email when i manually tag them

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @Phani,

It is not the AAD id. It is the Object Id from the Azure DevOps user.

I found that in the Organization Settings > Manage Users. Used the developer toolbar to retrieve that id. Found it in the GetMemberEntitlementsBatch Post request in the Json response of that request.  

[Phani]

Hi @Expiscornovus 

Have done the same . I got the user object ID, using below api and used that in mention but it did not worked out 

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @Phani,

Apologies if I wasn't clear. But it is not the Azure Active Directory Object Id I am using, it is the Azure DevOps Object Id/User Id I am using in the mention, which is a different guid.

I believe you can also find it via the User Entitlements summary:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/how-to-get-user-entitlement-api-userid-with-princi/858...

[IanCeicys]

Here's how I solved getting the userid so I could have the correct userid value for the @mention. 

Use get work item call to find the assign to user's id.

2 min video - Mention API Azure DevOps - YouTube

"text": "<div><a href=\"#\" data-vss-mention=\"version:2.0,{variable}

[Cgangweg01]

Hello -

I figured out how to get the Azure DevOps user ID from users who submit a Teams Form which will update a work item with a comment including the @mention for the user identified via a variable in my flow. However, when I try to insert a variable for the @Jane Doe part of the HREF <a> tag it inserts the variable expression instead of the value. Can you help me construct this html with a variable for the @Jane Doe part?

[Cgangweg01]

Never mind, got it to work with single quotes around the variable. Thanks for the post.

[DavidCHolley]

@Expiscornovus Would you please post the string for the Relative URI and Body without any of the variables? Thank you for the example, but without seeing how the variables are being set as well as their values understanding how to make the request becomes difficult for those of us starting out.

[mgand]

How did you get the Azure DevOps User I from users who submit a Teams Form?

[DavidCHolley]

Are you referring to the scenario where a Work Item is created from within Teams? My first thought is that ADO probably captures the actual user id as the Created By. I can post URL's for sample API calls as well as JSON shortly.

[mgand]

Well, really just trying to find a way to take a user and find their ID. I have someone submitting a form and I'm making the work item and would like to @ mention them, but I can't find a way to look up their Azure DevOps User ID if they aren't actually creating the work item.

[Cgangweg01]

hi -

So, I never really figured that part out as I moved on, but what I did do was built the ID right into the form (found the IDs in ADO somehow first). The number of users to @mention in my use case is limited. Then my flow parses the ID from the form selection into a variable and uses it from there. It is a cheat. I have not taken the time to hide the ID from the form yet as this is not in use yet, but it works.