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Alert when someone is added as reviewer in TFS

Our company is using Team Foundation Server 2015 and we want to setup a team alert, which notifies every person when this person is belatedly added as reviewer to a pull request. Is this possible? And if, how is it possible?

Edit: Let me be more specific: We have this branch policy, which requires the group “Project Collection Administrators” to be included in the reviewers and to approve the code to complete a pull request. Reviewer Rule

When I create a pull request and I add the group “Project Collection Administrators” to the reviewers, I want that every team member of this team receives a notification. Is this possible? Reviewer Rule

Solution

  • You could either create a Code Review Alert for a specific team member or entire team.

    • First, you must configure an SMTP server to support TFS.
    • Second, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrator or Team Foundation Administrator groups. If you’re not a member of these groups, you won't see the options available on http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/teamproject/_admin/_alerts for administering alerts.
    • If you want to only send the reviewer choose the name of the team member from the drop down list, or type the name in the search box. For team, directly use team alert.

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    • Create a code review alert A code review in this project changes for this team member or a team alert for entire team. Then he/everyone in the team will receive email alert when there is a review request to him/team.

    Moreover, you could set more customize filters as your wish. Details take a look at this topic: Set alerts for your team