Email Contributer to a Work Item.
Background: I have created a custom attribute to a work item called "Product Owner(s)" I also associated this to the "Contributor List" so the field can be populated with one or many Project Members. Attached is a screenshot of the custom attribute.
Question: Would it be possible to automatically send an email to those I select as a "Product Owner(s)" informing them of this action? The action I would like to perform is the same action as if I were to assign someone as an owner to the Work Item. All information is greatly appreciated. |
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We've had similar requests and actually have done something similar to you. In our case, a specific custom work item not only has an owner, but also (for simplicity) an architect. The owner gets the updates but the architect (by default) does not. Our plan is to write a PreconditionFollowup that would add the architect as a subscriber, and therefore, assuming they haven't configured NOT to get an email as a subscriber, they will also get emails.
We are looking at if we can unsubscribe them on the change as well. So if they were the architect previously and this save is the one that is changing to a different architect, then we would remove them as a subscriber.
Susan