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RaviKiranS
Copper Contributor
May 04, 2023

How to add a comment with rich text (text+images) to the work item (task) with Powershell

Hi All, I am trying to add a comment into discussion and other custom fields based of rich text programmatically (using PowerShell). Can you please guide me how to upload the image. I browsed onlin...
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Kidd_Ip
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Sep 12, 2025

Take this:

 

$org = "https://dev.azure.com/yourOrg"
$project = "yourProject"
$workItemId = 1234
$pat = "yourPersonalAccessToken"

$headers = @{
    Authorization = "Basic " + [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$pat"))
    "Content-Type" = "application/json"
}

$imageUrl = "https://yourdomain.com/path-to-image.jpg"
$commentText = "<p>This is a rich text comment with an image:</p><img src='$imageUrl' alt='Image' width='300' />"

$body = @{
    text = $commentText
} | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 3

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$org/$project/_apis/wit/workItems/$workItemId/comments?api-version=7.0" `
    -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $body

 

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