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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:53:00+00:00

In our company there are many teams who constantly submit build request work items

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In our company there are many teams who constantly submit build request work items to us via TFS. I know that it’s possible to trigger a build from a check-in or on a schedule, but this is not what we need. We would like for the team managers to be able to create a build request work item in TFS that, when saved, would queue a certain build definition. Is this possible?

I also wonder if it’s desirable to approach the problem this way. I’m new to the build team and we are thinking of ways to automate the builds. Is it a good idea? If not, why? How far can you take automation of the build process?

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  1. Answer to your first question is NO, not out of the box. I would argue that firing builds based off of Build work item types is not a good idea. Work items can not be locked down by type and thus you could not isolate the creation of these work items to team managers only.

    You can assign Start Build permissions to individuals/groups which would be the recommended way of granting build permissions to your team managers.

    To your second question, you can take automation as far as you wish using the team build APIs. MS has made TFS and Team Build very extensible.

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