Sunday, April 28, 2019

MS Flow Options for Azure DevOps

Microsoft Flow is in the Microsoft's business application platform to work on IFTT basis. It has many connectors and Azure DevOps triggers have been added recently along with some of them being on preview.

Firstly, lets look at the triggers.

As it can be seen, the build completion, work item actions (creation, update, assigning and closing) as well as code actions are included for checkins. One question that may raise is why use Flow over inbuilt options on Azure DevOps when build happens? Both has their good and bad. With Flow, you get the ability to connect to many other platforms. Name it a OneDrive document, Tweet, email or any what you like. 

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Azure DevOps Data in PowerBI

Recently I was able to tryout the Azure DevOps connector for PowerBI and visualize some crazy charts to see the work in progress for one of the organizations. It is still at Beta stage but looks solid with the way how it behaves.

You can simply search and find it on the connector search when you go to Get Data button and click on the More option down.