GitHub Action for turning Markdown items into Azure Boards Work Items

An action to create a work item in Azure Boards that corresponds to items in a markdown file in your repo that start with 📝. This lets you write docs of your roadmap and have those magically show up in your Azure Boards project

Usage

action "Process markdown to make Azure Boards Work Items" {
  uses = "mmanela/markdown-to-work-item-action@master"
  env = {
    AZURE_BOARDS_ORGANIZATION = "team"
    AZURE_BOARDS_PROJECT = "zTest"
    AZURE_BOARDS_TYPE = "User Story"
    PathGlob = "*.md"
  }
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN", "AZURE_BOARDS_TOKEN"]
}

Secrets

• AZURE_BOARDS_TOKEN – Mandatory; an access token to be used when creating/updating work items. See Authenticate access with personal access tokens for details.

• GITHUB_TOKEN – Mandatory; built in token that gives access to your repo

Environment variables

• AZURE_BOARDS_ORGANIZATION – Mandatory
• AZURE_BOARDS_PROJECT – Mandatory
• AZURE_BOARDS_TYPE – Optional; the type of work item to create. Defaults to "User Story" if unset. See process documentation for more details on work item types.
• PATH_GLOB – Optional; The paths to process for 📝 symbols. Defaults to the readme.md at the root