Add a hyperlink to the Discussion area of a WorkItem

Question

I want to add a link to the url of a specific wiki page in a tfs project in the discussion area of a workitem.

I just get text: http://tfs.xxxx.com:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/Project%2... as text.

I've tried using some markdown syntax that doesn't seem to work. Then I just get markdown with the url text.

Not possible?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Markdown is not supported yet in Discussions for now, and there's already a user voice here submitted to suggest the feature, you can go and vote it up to achieve that in future.

For now we can only use # to link a work item, ! to link a pull request or @ to mention a person.

However it will keep the links in discussion (comment) area if you copy the texts which have inserted hyperlinks for them.

So as a workaround, you could add the hyperlink to text first (e.g. from web-page or MS WORD ), then copy the text into Discussion (comment), save the work item.

e.g:

Test Wiki page , then copy texts as comment in discussion area.