Extension needs to be updated for New Boards Hub ⚠️

[danhellem]

Hello,

I am from the Azure Boards team. Your extension has been identified as needing to be updated so that it works properly in the New Boards hub. Right now the "Change state" is showing up twice. See my notes below on how to solve this.

[danhellem]

Hi,

Providing results of investigation.
Problem consists of 2 parts.

1. First one is - wrong registration name.

We need to register new contribution and can do it via ".register(contributionName, contributionMethod)" method.
In documentation - we have example when we should send short name (aka relative name) to register method.

(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/develop/add-action?view=azure-devops#your-javascript )

When OWP tries to execute the code of a contribution, it tries to find the registered contribution in two ways.

by full name "v-alekseia.delivery-work-item-deletion-control.myAction"
by short name "myAction"
So it executes 2-3 times and successfully find it.
Code, responsible for execution by short name (placed in Controls.js):

When NWP tries to execute the code of a contribution, it only tries to find the contribution only in one way

by full name "v-alekseia.delivery-work-item-deletion-control.myAction"
I didn't find any code, responsible for cut full names.
So, that's why it doesn't execute contribution method registered with short name.

Besides that, additional point - looks like it's better to use "VSS.getContributionId()" method - to get contribution name before registering.

2. Second issue is async execution.
   We have two method that needs to be executed

.init()
.register()
In documentation we have example which provide method execution in common sync way
(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/develop/add-action?view=azure-devops#your-javascript )

But inside "init" we have async operation tasks - initial handshake and only after initial handshake - continue initialization.

So it looks like that we need to await init method before registering some contribution - to be sure that VSS inited.

[konradsikorski]

Hi,
Thank you for feedback. I have fixed the double "Change statue" entry in context menu. The problem was with the contribution targets which new Board stooped supporting.

I have still one problem with the new board, maybe you can help me. For Query Results the "change state" option is showing as before in context menu in first section

but for Backlog the "Change state" is shown in last section :(

I am using the "modify" as groupId for my context menu option.

[konradsikorski]

@danhellem can you help me with that issue. What values the "groupId" may have?