{"id":56892,"date":"2019-06-19T01:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=56892"},"modified":"2019-06-19T01:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:06:38","slug":"link-unfurling-preview-in-azure-pipelines-app-for-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/link-unfurling-preview-in-azure-pipelines-app-for-slack\/","title":{"rendered":"Link unfurling (preview) in Azure Pipelines app for Slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of conversations in Slack start with links. With the new release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/apps\/AFH4Y66N9-azure-pipelines\">Azure Pipelines app for Slack<\/a>, pasting a URL to a build or release in Azure Pipelines now shows a rich preview of the pipeline. This adds context to the link and save users clicks to navigate to Azure DevOps and see if they need to act on it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, pasting a link to a build shows the details of the build and the current status.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/06\/PipelinesSlackURLUnfurl.gif\" alt=\"Build Link unfurl\" width=\"900\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56895\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The release card also shows details of the release and status of the first 3 stages of the release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/06\/UrlUnfurling-Release.png\" alt=\"URL unfurling for releases\" width=\"889\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/06\/UrlUnfurling-Release.png 889w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/06\/UrlUnfurling-Release-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/06\/UrlUnfurling-Release-768x186.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Enable link unfurling<\/h4>\n<p>There are a couple of things needed to get URL unfurling to work:<\/p>\n<p>If you are already using the Azure Pipelines app, please <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/InstallPipelinesSlackApp\">click here<\/a> and accept the Slack permissions needed for the feature to work.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, if you are installing the app for the first time, you will automatically go through this process as part of the app installation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The user pasting the URL needs to be logged in to the app. The preview only works if the poster has access to the build or release pipeline<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do let us know if you have any feedback on the Azure DevOps <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/spaces\/21\/index.html\">feedback portal<\/a> or by using the <code>\/azpipelines feedback<\/code> command in the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Azure Pipelines app for Slack provides rich previews of builds and releases when a URL is pasted to the pipeline ( Link unfurling)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":55977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ci"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Azure Pipelines app for Slack provides rich previews of builds and releases when a URL is pasted to the pipeline ( Link unfurling)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}