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Azure Boards Approval on Work Item/ Tasks
Hi Azure DevOps Community,
We are currently implementing Azure Boards as our project management tool, but one major requirement in our project is to integrate task approval in the work item by management / team leads.
Our current process is to seek manual email approval and attach it to the work item.
Is there any way to implement this feature in Azure Boards?
Here is our expected flow:
App team creates work item -> Management leads will approve -> DevOps will do the task
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There doesn't offer built-in approval mechanism for work items yet but some workarounds have been shared:
- Work item automation rules, which can be set up to transition work item states based on predefined conditions
- Add a custom field for approvals and create a workflow where management leads update the field before DevOps proceeds.
- To tie to deployments, n use pre-deployment approvals in Azure Pipelines.
