How would you access attributes of work items (Features, User Stories, Bugs, or Tasks) associated with a build in the release pipeline? - azure-devops

Question

My team and I are trying to find a way to automatically build release notes and generate them in markdown to be put into a Wiki for users to access. I found a video from Microsoft where their team uses a process where they have release notes for each feature in their Feature objects, but they have manually query those objects and build a markdown file for each release manually. I'm sure by now they must have figured this out, but can't find anything from them yet on that.
Now, I have seen a couple of market place tools (Bravo Notes for one) that do this, but I figured there must be a way we can make a task ourselves that does this for us and automatically place the markdown file in our Wiki (after an approval process of course).
If anyone has any ideas on how I can accomplish this, please let me know. I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty with some Powershell scripts.

Answer 1

You can use Azure DevOps Rest API to get the work item that associated to the build, then get work item details. create from the details a Markdown file and add it to the wiki.
Example to PowerShell script that do it (get work items asscoited with the build and print the AssignedTo field):
$user = ""
$token = "MY-PAT"
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $user,$token)))
$url = "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/workitems?api-version=5.1"
$workItems = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get -ContentType application/json -Headers #{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}
$json = $workItems | ConvertTo-Json
$workItems.value.ForEach({
$workItem = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $_.url -Method Get -ContentType application/json -Headers #{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}
Write-Host $workItem.fields.'System.AssignedTo'.displayName
})