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Create and embed a work item from wiki

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Create and embed work items in your wiki page content. This feature gives you an easy way to promote text to a link to a feature, task, or user story.

Create and embed work item

  1. Sign in to your project (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization/Your_Project}).

    Screenshot of sign-in to Azure DevOps, and selected project.

  2. Open your wiki.

  3. Highlight the text, and then choose the type of work item you want to create from the New work item dropdown menu. The work item form opens with the selected text added as the title and description of the work item.

  4. Add information to the work item, such as entering an assignee in the Assign To box, and then select Save & Close.

    Screenshot of create and embed work items from Wiki content.

The selected content in the wiki page is replaced with the embedded work item.

Note

Only Markdown plain text, including bold and italics, get replaced in the wiki page. For the rest of the content like images, code blocks, and videos, the work item gets created, but the embed must be done manually. This process is to prevent the page from breaking due to the replaced work item. For more information, see Link to work items from a Wiki page.

Show work item status

The status, ID, and title of an embedded work item is shown in the wiki page. Work item references in pull request comments and Boards discussions also show the status.

Screenshot of Work item status shown on wiki page.