Add Az Pipeline Tip

content/pipelines-badges.md

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+Title: Make your pipeline badges more compact and meaningful
+Date: 2022-01-17
+Category: Posts
+Tags: azure-devops, eliminate-waste, pipelines, tips
+Slug: pipelines-streamlined-approvals
+Author: Willy-Peter Schaub
+Summary: Tired of cluttering your dashboards with duplicated waste?
+
+We have dashboards with multiple pipeline badges to keep an eye on our Azure DevOps pipelines. I often wondered why we cannot change the "Azure Pipelines" label to reduce the duplication (WASTE) and make our dashboards more compact.
+
+![Jurassic Park](../images/pipeline-badges-1.png)
+
+Well, if you change ...
+
+```
+[![Build status](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_apis/build/status/Reporting/Azure%20Pipelines%20Totals?branchName=master)](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_build/latest?definitionId=1818)
+```
+
+... to ...
+
+```
+[![Build status](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_apis/build/status/Reporting/Azure%20Pipelines%20Totals?branchName=master&label=PIPELINE%20TOTALS)](https://dev.azure.com/demo-org/demo-proj/_build/latest?definitionId=1818)
+```
+
+... by adding by adding ```&label=<TEXT>```, you can enjoy a more compact version of your dashboard.
+
+![SpaceX](../images/pipeline-badges-2.png)
+
+I stumbled over this tweak in a recent Azure DevOps community chat and realized that I must read the Azure DevOps REST API documentation a bit more carefully. See **URI Parameters** in [Status Get](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/build/status/get?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0) and notice "_Replaces the default text on the left side of the badge._"
+