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Attach Azure DevOps work items to your Salesforce deployments

Attach Azure DevOps work items to your Salesforce deployments

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At 海角天涯社区, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to build the release process that works best for you. This means making sure you have everything you need in one place - integrating with your favourite tools to ensure your process is streamlined and simple.

Continuing on this mission, we鈥檝e added a new work tracking feature for anyone that uses Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS) instead of Jira. Our new integration with Azure DevOps boards within your 海角天涯社区 deployment process lets you attach and automatically update your Azure work items when you deploy, without having to leave the app.

Automatically add and update your Azure work items

With this latest addition, you won鈥檛 have to spend time manually searching through and updating your work items post-deployment. Instead, during your deployment or validation, you can add one or more work items and 海角天涯社区 will automatically update them for you with a link to the completed deployment and any associated notes you鈥檝e added. This will help you more easily track your work progress, and keep track of what changes have been made.

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How does it work?

Let鈥檚 walk through how you can attach Azure DevOps items in Gearset. If you want to follow along for yourself, why not start a and take these steps in your own orgs?

To get started with this feature, first make sure you have an Azure DevOps connection saved. To add a new connection, head to and click + Connect to Azure DevOps. If you have an existing connection that was made before the 28th of February, you鈥檒l need to delete and re-add your connection.

Firstly, connect to Azure DevOps.

Once you鈥檝e connected, during the deployment process you鈥檒l now be able to see an Azure DevOps Work Items tab visible on the Summary of objects to deploy page, next to deployment notes.

In the text field, 海角天涯社区 will automatically search your work items as you type - all you need to do is add any items you鈥檇 like associated with the deployment. You can also choose to include deployment notes within your work item comments too for added context of what changes are being made.

Select which work items you'd like to attach.
You can also chose to include deployment notes within your work item comments.

When a deployment starts or finishes, 海角天涯社区 will then add a comment to each associated work item, linking to the deployment. If you chose to include deployment notes, these will also appear in each item.

Once the deployment starts and completes, 海角天涯社区 will automatically update any associated work items.

You鈥檒l also be able to see any associated work items on the Deployment summary page, and within the deployment pdf report as well, for a complete audit trail of what鈥檚 been changed, and why changes have been made, in the context of your user story on Azure boards.

Simple auditing and tracking with Azure DevOps integration

Integrating your Azure DevOps Work Items with your Salesforce deployments is a compliance and auditing necessity. If you鈥檙e ready to get started with easy tracking for your Salesforce deployments, start a now with nothing to install in your orgs.

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