View Promotion Status

When promotion completes, you see a success banner or a failure banner where you can see details of the error. You have several options to validate the promotion or dig into errors.

From the pipeline stage dropdown menu (1):

  • Open Environment — opens the environment so you can validate changes.
  • View Branch in Source Control – opens the branch in source control so you can view the files in this branch.
  • View Last Commit in Source Control – opens a list of commits (individual changes to a set of files) in source control. Here, you can see what’s changed between two branches.

From the Work Item:

  • View Change Request from the work item dropdown menu (2) – opens the pull request in source control so you can view the changes and troubleshoot any merge conflicts.
  • View details (3) – opens the Activity History tab for a failed promotion, where you can view more information.

From the Activity History tab:

  • View the promotion details including work items that were part of the promotion.
  • View whether the promotion succeeded or failed, failure details, and the date and time of completion.
Pipeline Stages tab, where you have several methods to view changes associated with work items: pipeline stage menu, work item menu, and View Details (if the promotion failed).