vba - VSTS - uploading via an excel macro and getting @mentions to work

Question

I am using VSTS and would like numerous people to get sent the notification when a work task is created.

I am creating a lot of stencils that can just automate and upload work tasks through the TEAM add-in in excel, but don't know how to make the "@mention" function work.

I have written all sorts of styles of syntax in the history field, then publish but nothing seems to work.

Has anyone figured this out?

Cheers Dave

Answer 1

The format is like:

<a href="#" data-vss-mention="version:2.0,userid"></a>

You can To get the userid through User Entitlements-Lists REST API:

GET https://{accountName}.vsaex.visualstudio.com/_apis/userentitlements?api-version=4.1-preview