The question is the following:
I have a custom Requester field in TFS work items. It contains a valid TFS user name.
Is it possible to send an email to the person specified in this custom field, when the item changes a state?
In other words:
Requester = [Me]
Send email on State change
From the following questions :
1) “[Me]” variable for custom field alerts in TFS 2013
2) How to create custom Field with transition workflow in TFS
I figured out that custom fields (such as Requester) do not have = and <> operators. They have only Change, Change to, Change from. Thus it is not possible. (You can only observe the changes made to the custom fields)
Has anybody seen, herd or implemented a solution to this? Maybe a custom plug-in?
Thank You in advance!
You're looking at a server side event handler to achieve this.
Intercept the Work Item changed event
Check if the change was a
change in state
If it is, then email the address listed in the
Requester field.
There are couple of old projects on codeplex which should get you up and running but you'll need to update for TFS 2015 (and test with any updates you apply later)
Email alerts for TFS
TFS Work Item Watcher
There is a feature that just popped into VSTS that makes this a little slicker
Follow a Work Item
Although you would get notified on all changes rather than just state change
The feature was added in TFS "15" (not the same as TFS2015, see Brian Harry's blog post)
The feature is not enabled publicly yet, but there is a feature flag that you can turn on by changing a value in the team foundation registry to enable it - because it's not public yet you will have to contact Microsoft for instructions,
I have provided my email in the blog post
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rihamselim/2016/09/07/enabling-alerts-for-custom-fields-in-work-item-alerts/
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I have written code that is supposed to help us automate some specific cases. It will create a addresstag for the customer and change the status of the case to "Address Tag Sent".
All this works as intended, but for some reason the status of the case is changed back to "New".
As you can see here there is an event called "Activate" that changes the status.
I haven't found what this event is or why it occurs. I have gone through all the Workflows we got, all processes, all code (As good as I can) and spent a good amount of time trying to google it but I still come out empty handed.
Is there someone who might know what this event is? Or maybe got any idea how to access/modify it?
'Activate' will essentially re-activate any record and put the statuscode back to the default statuscode\status reason - I am guessing your default is set to 'New'.
I would investigate in these directions:
Since “changed by” showing as “CRM migration account”, this maybe an ETL job like SSIS, or Scribe which is syncing data changes from outside integration
Maybe the same service account is used by plugin, to reset the StateCode and StatusCode on some business logic
Is there some Business process flow stages available in your form, as I see “Service stage” attribute in audit before that, there may be logics coupled with that
Verify the dependencies of statecode attribute in customizations to see any SDK steps or workflows referencing that. Check in your code repos and check with any long timers in your project for any business logics implemented in the past.
I want to update the status using single common way in c#.
For now I know about SetStateRequest but it did not change its status to any of status. e.g. If i want to change status to fulfilled for order or canceled for order then it requires FulfillSalesOrderRequest and CancelSalesOrderRequest .Like wise different different class for quote's status and others.
So I want some common way for change status.If is there any solution please suggest me.
If you are on CRM 2015 Update 1 or later, SetStateRequest has been deprecated in favor of a normal UpdateRequest, as seen on MSDN:
Before Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1, specialized
messages were required to update certain entity attribute values. Now,
UpdateRequest can now be used to set these attributes. The following
table identifies the specialized deprecated message requests and the
related message attributes that can be updated using UpdateRequest.
With that being said, FulfillSalesOrderRequest (and the corresponding Requests for quotes) have not been deprecated, so you still need to use them going forward. The common reqeust you are looking for does thus not exist.
Can I configure an alert when a TFS Label is created ? I don't find that option in the current predefined alerts. These are the ones I found:
And I want when a label is created:
Send an email notification.
No, this is not possible using the standard Alert features.
I created my own solution! I don't know how much access you have to your on-premise TFS instance, but you need to be able to execute t-sql scripts against the TFS mssql database. My solution is here: https://github.com/Antebios/tfs-label-notification
And when anyone creates a TFSVC label I get an email alert that looks like this:
Basically, I created a database trigger to populate a table. I query that table and send an email out, then mark the label as sent. I also have a trigger to delete form that table just in case the label gets deleted. I wrote the service in .NET Core just in case anyone wants to convert it to run within a container. Let me know if this helps or not.
I have a simple plugin for a custom entity that is set to trigger on Update of my custom entity. It is registered in the Post Operation stage. I have noticed some strange behaviour when I make changes to the Owner field of the record in addition to other standard fields (e.g. text boxes, dates etc).
The plugin fires the first time and the only attributes that come across in the image are all the regular fields. The owner field does not come across.
The plugin then fires again, but the Depth property of the context is still only one (i.e. the plugin is not getting triggered by changes made in the plugin code). In this run of the plugin, the attribute that come across is only the Owner field.
My theory is that because the owner fields are 'special', the CRM is doing two different requests - one to change the regular fields, and then another request for changing the owner via an AssignRequest. However, I cannot find any 'official' documentation for this behaviour.
Can someone explain why this is happening?
I am running Dynamcs CRM 2013 UR2
The Update event fires during the Assign event. So if an assignment takes place your plug-in will execute. The same is true for SetState - if you activate/deactivate a record an Update event takes place. These items are not documented in the SDK.
A good practice is to use Attribute Filtering on your Update plugin so it only fires for the fields it is concerned about - this will, assuming it is isn't looking at the owner related fields, avoid it firing twice. If you have logic specific to record ownership you would put it in a plugin that is registered on the Assign event.
I was not able to find official documentation about this, but I think Assign message is what you are looking for (if the entity is user-owned. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328576.aspx. I would strongly recommend that you specify Filtering Attributes if you are registering a plugin on Update message. You could also debug your plugin and inspect MessageName property of plugin context and see what message gets triggered. I hope this helps.
I found this post, which seems to be an exact duplicate, but I can't figure out how to get the answer to work for me so I'm posting again...
TFS2010: Set up an alert that will email a member in the team when a work item is assigned to them
I want anyone (not everyone) using TFS to receive an email when they are assigned an item or when an item assigned to them changes. So, when the alert happens, the person who is currently assigned the item will receive an email.
I know I can set up this on a per-person basis with Alerts Explorer, but I can't figure out how to do this for everyone at once.
I looked at https://tfsalerts.codeplex.com/, but it looks like it's used to send alerts to groups of people...I only want to send the alert to a single relevant person (the equivalent of #Me). If this tool can do that, I'm not sure how to make it do so.
what you want to do is write a TFS Server Plugin. This plugin will fire whenever a certain event occurs. In your case, you will want to catch the WorkItemChangedEvent. In the notification, you will find old and new values of each field. By checking whether the assigned to field changed, you will know whether the WI has been reassigned.
Once you determined that the WI has been reassigned, you can take the New Value, and go to Active Directory (assuming you're using it), and get the email address. Finally, send a message.
For a code example of writing a robust server plugin (that happens to target the WorkItemChangedEvent, check out this blog post: How to Write a Robust TFS Server Plugin