Mathias Olausson - Generate email notifications for team foundation server when a check-in policy is overridden

Monday, April 02, 2007

Generate email notifications for team foundation server when a check-in policy is overridden

As a follow-up to the last post on how to use BisSubscribe.exe for setting up email notifications on work item changes, here’s a sample on how to use BisSubscribe to generate an email whenever someone does a check-in and overrides a check-in policy:

BisSubscribe.exe /eventType CheckinEvent /address mathias@win2003 /deliveryType EmailHtml /filter "PolicyOverrideComment <>''" /server http://localhost:8080

Whenever a user checks-in code and does a policy override a mail like the one below is sent:

Monday, April 02, 2007 8:28:34 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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