Azure-devops-docs: vstsFeedPublish is inconsistently documented in sections

[drdamour]

in Publish your packages vstsFeedPublish is hinted as feed name, but in Package versioning it's feed guid.

it should be feed guid in both places

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• ID: 405dfb6a-2f3d-1d74-2d28-d00be3bb069d
• Version Independent ID: d446b533-c215-6302-3df2-93b1ffd936df
• Content: Publish & download Universal Packages - Azure Pipelines and TFS
• Content Source: docs/pipelines/artifacts/universal-packages.md
• Product: devops
• Technology: devops-cicd
• GitHub Login: @chasewilson
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[hammady]

How to get the feed guid anyway? I don't seem to find it.

[hammady]

Feed name should also work but with the project name as a prefix. For example: Project1/my-feed.

[Justin-DynamicD]

only way i wa sable to get eh guid was to use the classic method to make a one-step pipeline, then saved it as yaml and took the GUID it assign :/

[kozmaz87]

Or you can use the api.

https://{accountName}.feeds.visualstudio.com/_apis/packaging/Feeds/

The id you need is the project id SLASH(FFS where was that mentioned) the feed id. /.

But I agree it is absolute shite docs. Typical Azure unfortunately. Contradicting themselves in the same page is very common with these guys.

[Justin-DynamicD]

OK, I did some extra testing this weekend, and this documentation needs some updating.

downloading vstsfeed by name works, but you must be careful to understand if you are attempting to read an organizational or project scoped feed.

The DefaultFeed in Azure artifacts is organizational, and thus can be downloaded using merely its feed name, however project-scoped feeds must be done in the format of /.

But it gets better.

It appears that once you "unlock" that you can use simple names, it seems you can incorporate views as well (which is completely undocumented and I basically guessed by looking at syntax elsewhere):

/@

Now I can download the latest version of an artifact that has been promoted to the appropriate view.

I think this means this document needs some good clarification, because this is a pretty big omission.

[Justin-DynamicD]

huh ... using certain characters gets swallowed up ...

project/feed

project/feed@view for further filtering will work in download mode.

[dajoen]

So, just tried it. And it didn't work using project/feed, but now it worked just using feed name.

[Justin-DynamicD]

feed name vs. project/feed depends on the scope of the feed. Organizational Feeds only need the name, project feeds must be prefixed wit the project.

[ramiMSFT]

@drdamour Thank you for your feedback. The new version will go live shortly.