Avoid being flooded by Azure Devops notifications

Question

We have global notifications setup to send notification to work items assignees. But since there are many fields in these work items, users complain about receiving too many notifications.

We want to setup work item change notifications to be sent only when certain fields are updated, For eg. only on state and title change of a work item.

Is this possible in Azure Devops?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65922035/avoid-being-flooded-by-azure-devops-notifications

Answer 1

Yes, this is achievable in Azure devops. You only need to configure the filter criteria for the notification. See below example:

Navigate to the Organization Settings page-->Global notifications-->Statics tab-->Select the notification your team subscribed.

Then Edit the notification your team subscribed. Add the new clause in the filter criteria section to only send notification on the specific fields changes.

Check out document Manage notifications for a team, group, or organization for more information.