Configure Azure DevOps Posting User

Code reviews for your Azure DevOps Server projects will be posted as a "PullRequest" member of your Azure DevOps team. In order to post code reviews, the user must be created in your Azure DevOps.

Prerequisites

The Azure DevOps posting user must be created by an individual on your team with the following administrative permissions:

• A PullRequest account with an Owner role for the organization in question.

• An Administrator role on your Azure DevOps Server Group.

Create Posting User

Log in to your Azure DevOps instance as an Administrator and create a new user with the username PullRequest. PullRequest reviewers and systems will use this user to post code review content.

We also recommend adding the PullRequest logo as the posting user's avatar:

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Add Posting User to Projects

Add the PullRequest user to all of the organizations/repositories you want code review on. Be sure to grant the user the appropriate access so it's able to read repositories and pullrequests, view code and post comments.

Create Azure DevOps Access Token

Log into Azure DevOps as the PullRequest user you just created.

This may be easier in another browser or in an incognito tab so you can remain logged in as the Azure DevOps Administrator user.

Click the profile icon at the top right and click Security from the drop-down menu. From here, click on Personal access tokens from the sidebar on the left. This should be accessible from the following path:

https://your-internal-azure.com/DefaultCollection/_usersSettings/tokens

Click New Token and create a Personal Access Token with the following properties:

• Code - Read & Write and Status

• Identity - Read

In order to function properly write permissions are required. PullRequest will never write or modify code in your repositories. Read more about how we keep your code and data secure here.

Once generated, copy the personal access token to your clipboard so we can configure the connection to Azure DevOps.

Connecting the PullRequest Proxy to Azure DevOps

Now, it's time to return to that text file we're editing on the proxy server. Go ahead and set the following keys based on what was configured above.

PROVIDER_TYPE=azuredevops
PROVIDER_BASE_URL=https://your-internal-azure.com
PROVIDER_USERNAME=PullRequest
PROVIDER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<access_token>

Make sure the PullRequest Username is spelled exactly as the username of the PullRequest user that was created. We highly recommend "PullRequest" (all one word, PascalCase) to maintain communication consistency.