Azure Boards-“Copy Comment Links”
Often it’s the little things that make a difference. Recently a subtle but very nice feature, “Copy Comment Links” was added to Azure Boards.
Side note: This is a great example of using the “Make a suggestion” feature in Azure DevOps.
This particular feature started as a suggestion from a user that got voted up by the community. You can see it here.
Copy Comments Link
Have you ever been looking at a work item, and noticed a comment in the discussion of that work item that might be helpful in completing another work item.
You could copy and paste the contents of the comment from one work item to another. Which is ok, however you lose the context of the original work item and the rest of the conversation that lead to the comment you are interested in which may be important to the reader. You could like the two work items together as related, but will anyone notice?
With this feature in place you can copy a link to the comment and paste that into another work item, an email or where ever it makes sense.
Lets say you’re looking at a bug, that explains how “house wear” items do not show up in the cart.
Perhaps you remember another bug that sounded similar, and there’s a comment in that Bug that mentions a solution.
Open the bug with the comment, and navigate to the comment in the Discussion list on the details tab of the work item.
Hover over the comment and click the Copy Link button in the comment.
The URL copied to your clipboard takes you directly to the comment in the work item.
https://dev.azure.com/<myorg>/<myproject>/_workitems/edit/2397#6276174
Now you can just paste the URL where ever it’s useful. Perhaps the description or discussion of the first Bug you found.
When the reader clicks the link, they will be taken directly to the comment with the whole work item for context.
Nice little feature MS! Thank you.
Note: At the time of this writing, This feature will only be available with the New Boards Hubs preview.
