Way to use Azure DevOps REST API and WIQL to retrieve an audit trail for user stories, including acceptance details such as the person, email address, and date-time?

Question

Based on my investigation,

Azure DevOps does not provide direct built-in work item queries to extract this information. However, using REST API's "Work Item Revisions" .can help I believe.

I have done some investigation,

Here are the links - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1

Please suggest how we can do this with clear steps ?

and from where I should start? to implement this?

Answer 1

Hello Diptesh Kumar,

To get the work item history items like who changed it or who accessed the specific work item, you can use updates-List as it returns the work item revisions.

API:

GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/workItems/{id}/updates?api-version=5.1

Also, you can use updates-Get to return a single update for a work item as given in the MS Doc.

GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/workItems/{id}/updates/{updateNumber}?api-version=5.1

Hope this helps!

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