How to: Receive Build Notification E-Mail
By using Team Foundation, you can receive e-mail notifications based on alerts which are triggered by build events. For more information, see How to: Add or Edit Alerts. The types of build events for which you can be notified include the following:
A build completes.
A build quality changes.
The e-mail notifications contain a link to a Web page that displays the build details. The link corresponds to the build number affiliated with the notification alert. You can view the page over the Internet remotely. For more information, see Overview of the Build Details Web Page. Additionally, the e-mail notifications contain the following information:
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Team project |
AdventureWorks |
Details (only applies to quality event notification) |
BuildQuality changed from Unexamined to Under Investigation |
Build started by |
Username |
Build agent |
Buildagentname |
Build started on |
06/20/2008 2:00:00 AM |
Build completed on |
06/20/2008 2:22:10 AM |
You can create alerts that send e-mail notifications to you or others based on when events that you specify occur. Notifications for alerts arrive in your default e-mail program and can be opened by clicking the link in the alert. For more information, see How to: Add or Edit Alerts.
Required Permissions
To complete this procedure, you must have the Team Foundation Server View project-level information permission set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.
To enable build notification alerts
With the applicable team project node selected in Team Explorer, on the Team menu, click Project Alerts.
Select the type of notification you want to receive, either A build completes alert or A build quality changes alert.
In the Send to box for each alert, add the e-mail addresses of the team members you want to receive the alert. You can use a distribution list to simplify the process of specifying recipients.
In the Format box for each alert, select HTML for the type of e-mail notification to be sent.
Click OK to enable notifications for the specified build alert.
See Also
Concepts
Team Foundation Build Overview