VSTS stories and wiki page created or edited email alert?

Question

I am new to Visual Studio Team Services (as well as MS Teams), and no one on my team seems to know how to do this, nor am I finding any love on Google.

• Alert when a story is created in VSTS
• Alert when a wiki page is created in VSTS
• Alert when a story is edited in VSTS
• Alert when a wiki page is edited in VSTS

(I am adding those four separately for search purposes) Alert would ideally be an email.

Ideally it would include if files are attached to either story or wiki (but that could be covered by a "last modified date" on the story/wiki itself?) or an existing file is modified.

I can't help, but think that the access level I've been given is part of the problem (average user as opposed to administrator level). It may be hidden from me?

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PARTIALLY RESOLVED 2018-03-27 11:30 EST

For STORIES, see screenshots below. No support for wikis have been found yet.

1. Gear icon, Project Settings (wording may vary)

2. Notifications, new subscription

3. Create subscription

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Answer 1

Yes, it is possible. However, for User Stories, it is more transparent than for Wiki Pages.

First of all, get acquainted with this generic guideline about how to configure notifications in VSTS.

Work item notifications

As long as the User Story is just a work item of the specific type, you can configure a work item notification. For instance, when a new work item is created:

Note: I have a different project template in the screenshot above - there's no User Story work item type, but you should get the idea.

Similar to this, you can configure a "work item is modified" type of notification, tweaking the query parameters according to your needs.

Wiki page notifications

There's no specific notification type for wiki page changes, as far as I know. However, internally wiki is just another Git repository. If you navigate to the main Wiki view of your project, and click More arrow, you'll see the option to clone the wiki repo, and there you'll find its name, too:

Thus, you can work around the lack of wiki notification type by tweaking a "commit is pushed" notification:

Each wiki subpage resides in the folder named by the parent page. Grouping the wiki articles properly, you can at least setup the notifications for a group of pages.