How to display Area path in VSTS build task input PickList

Question

We need to display the Area path in a VSTS Build task input PickList, so that we can retrieve user selected  Area path value from build task and set it

Answer 1

You can use below code and add following section in task.josn file to achieve this:

"inputs": [
    {
      "name": "rootArea",
      "type": "pickList",
      "label": "rootArea",
      "defaultValue": "",
      "required": false,
      "helpMarkDown": "Select the root area.",
      "properties": {
                "DisableManageLink": "True"
            }   
    },
    {
      "name": "childArea",
      "type": "pickList",
      "label": "childArea",
      "defaultValue": "",
      "required": false,
      "helpMarkDown": "Select the child area.",
      "properties": {
                "DisableManageLink": "True"
            }   
    }
  ],
  "sourceDefinitions": [
        {
            "target": "rootArea",
            "endpoint": "/$(system.teamProject)/_apis/wit/classificationNodes/areas?$depth=2&api-version=1.0",
            "selector": "jsonpath:$.name",
            "keySelector": "jsonpath:$.name",
                "authKey": "tfs:teamfoundation"
        },
        {
            "target": "childArea",
            "endpoint": "/$(system.teamProject)/_apis/wit/classificationNodes/areas?$depth=2&api-version=1.0",
            "selector": "jsonpath:$.children[*].name",
            "keySelector": "jsonpath:$.children[*].name",
                "authKey": "tfs:teamfoundation"
        }
    ],

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