Remote System Links

Applies to Collaborator 14.5, last modified on April 18, 2024

If your current review template allows, the Remote System Links section is displayed. The section lists all pull requests, direct pushes and issue-tracking items linked with this review:

Remote System Links section in Web Client

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Remote System Links section in Visual Studio Extension

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Remote System Links section in Eclipse Plug-in

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The list automatically populates with the following items:

  • Links to the remote repository for reviews created on pull requests and direct pushes to remote repositories, if any of repository hosting integrations is established and running.

  • Build statuses of your CI systems (Jenkins, Travis and so forth) for reviews created on pull requests of GitHub repositories. (If GitHub integration is established and running and your repositories use continuous integration.)

  • Links to issue-tracking item identifiers that occur anywhere within the review (title, custom fields, comments and so on), if any of issue-tracking integrations is established and running.

The Remote System Links section also displays current statuses of linked items. Item statuses are updated upon webhook events (if a remote system supports webhooks), or periodically (default interval is every 2 minutes and can be adjusted via VM option). Also, participants may refresh item status manually by clicking the Refresh button in the Action column.

Besides that, participants may remove linked items or append links to issue-tracking items, several pull requests from the repository hosting services.

Note:

Azure Pull requests can be added using pull request command only.

Work With Remote System Links

Linking pull requests to a review from Pull request comment

The Collaborator provides a few commands which help user to add/remove PR to/from existing Collaborator review or create a new review and add PR to it directly form PR comments.

Command Description and examples

collab create review

Create new review and add current PR into it.

collab add pr [empty/prId/id1,id2...] review [empty/reviewId]

Add PR to a specific review.

collab add pr review 100 - add current pull request to the review 100

collab add pr 3600 review 200 - add pull request with id 3600 to the review 200.

collab add pr 3600,36 review 200 - add pull requests 3600 and 36 to the review 200.

collab remove pr [empty/prId/id1,id2...] review [empty/reviewId]

Remove PR from a specific review.

collab remove pr review - remove current pull request from the linked review.

collab remove pr 3600 review 200 - remove pull request with id 3600 from the review 200.

collab remove pr 12,24 review 200 - remove pull requests 12 and 24 from the review 200.

Note:

For Azure integration there is no possibility to specify PR ID when PR is added to review (only current PR can be added).

See Also

Review Screen
Source Control Integrations
Issue-Tracking Integrations

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