# Pull Request decoration i Azure Devops not working

**URL:** <https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491>\
**Category:** SonarQube Cloud\
**Tags:** azuredevops, sonarqube-cloud\
**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491 "2022-02-02T13:38:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/1 "2022-02-02T13:38:37Z")

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Hi!

I’m using Sonarcloud with Azure Devops but I can get the PR decoration to work. I have successfully imported the project in Sonarcloud and I can see the result of the analysis, but nothing is reported back to Azure Devops.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot the connection? Is there a log in Sonarcloud somewhere or some way of testing the connection?

I’m completely in the dark here.

Regards  
Jonas

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/colin/32/55255_2.png) [@Colin](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/2 "2022-02-03T14:37:47Z")

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Hey there.

Three important questions:

- Is your project [bound](https://docs.sonarcloud.io/advanced-setup/bound-vs-unbound/) to the correct repository (clicking on the Azure DevOps icon should take you to the repository you are raising pull requests on)
- Do you see **Pull Requests** being analyzed in the SonarCloud UI (under the **Pull Requests** section of your project)?

 ![Screenshot 2022-02-03 at 15.35.17](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/uploads/sonarcommunity/original/3X/4/9/492e7702e8946024c8d42e60baf2c524cdc641f8.png)

- Finally, have you configured a valid token at either the project-level **Administration \> General Settings \> Pull Requests** ) or at the organiztion-level ( **Administration \> Organization settings \> Azure DevOps connectivity management** )?

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/3 "2022-02-07T06:48:31Z")

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Hi Colin!

Thank you for replying. Thats a Yes on all those three question.

Here’s the output from the background worker on a PR build.  
I can see that the value of our project name (key: sonar.pullrequest.vsts.project) is wrongly encoded. Could that be the issue?

```auto
SonarCloud plugins:
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  - Apex Code Quality and Security 1.9.0.3429 (sonarapex)
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  - Ruby Code Quality and Security 1.9.0.3429 (ruby)
  - Vulnerability Rules for C# 9.3.0.14923 (securitycsharpfrontend)
  - Vulnerability Rules for Java 9.3.0.14923 (securityjavafrontend)
  - License for SonarLint 8.0.0.26500 (license)
  - Vulnerability Rules for JS 9.3.0.14923 (securityjsfrontend)
  - COBOL Code Quality 4.6.2.4876 (cobol)
  - Vulnerability Rules for Python 9.3.0.14923 (securitypythonfrontend)
  - PHP Code Quality and Security 3.22.1.8626 (php)
  - ABAP Code Quality and Security 3.10.0.3628 (abap)
  - Configuration detection fot Code Quality and Security 1.2.0.267 (config)
  - Vulnerability Rules for PHP 9.3.0.14923 (securityphpfrontend)
Global server settings:
  - email.from=noreply@sonarcloud.io
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  - node_10_grace_period_termination_date=1621814400000
  - sonar.auth.bitbucket.enabled=true
  - sonar.auth.microsoft.enabled=true
  - sonar.core.id=1BD809FA-AWHW8ct9-T_TB3XqouNu
  - sonar.core.serverBaseURL=https://sonarcloud.io
  - sonar.core.startTime=2022-02-02T11:17:09+0100
  - sonar.dbcleaner.weeksBeforeDeletingAllSnapshots=260
  - sonar.dbcleaner.weeksBeforeKeepingOnlyOneSnapshotByMonth=4
  - sonar.dbcleaner.weeksBeforeKeepingOnlyOneSnapshotByWeek=1
  - sonar.global.exclusions=**/build-wrapper-dump.json
  - sonar.lf.enableGravatar=true
  - sonar.lf.logoWidthPx=105
  - sonar.maintenance_mode.link=https://sonarcloud.statuspage.io/incidents/6qy1js6rqm5n
  - sonar.maintenance_mode.message=SonarCloud will undergo maintenance for 30 minutes on Tuesday, February 15th. The service will not be available between 07:00 CET and 07:30 CET. Additionally, we will execute two maintenance tasks on February 8th and February 22nd at 08:00 CET, during which, it is possible that you will receive errors over a short period of time (1-2 minutes).
  - sonar.maintenance_mode.start_date=2022-02-15T07:00:00.000+01:00
  - sonar.organizations.anyoneCanCreate=true
  - sonar.organizations.createPersonalOrg=true
  - sonar.plsql.file.suffixes=sql,tab,pkb
  - sonar.tsql.file.suffixes=.tsql
Project server settings:
  - sonar.pullrequest.provider=Azure DevOps Services
  - sonar.pullrequest.vsts.token.secured= ******
Project scanner properties:
  - sonar.cs.opencover.reportsPaths=**/coverage.opencover.xml
  - sonar.host.url=https://sonarcloud.io/
  - sonar.login= ******
  - sonar.modules=7488A04F-EAD7-490A-8743-8D62CCDAE406,43BD8A9C-2FE3-47F0-951C-5D78548E1EB8
  - sonar.organization=afaforsakring
  - sonar.projectBaseDir=/__w/48/s/src
  - sonar.projectKey=afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet
  - sonar.projectName=mega-worker-dotnet
  - sonar.projectVersion=1.0
  - sonar.pullrequest.base=main
  - sonar.pullrequest.branch=sonar-test
  - sonar.pullrequest.key=2767
  - sonar.pullrequest.provider=vsts
  - sonar.pullrequest.vsts.instanceUrl=https://afaforsakring.visualstudio.com/
  - sonar.pullrequest.vsts.project=Kundresa och v��rdestr��m
  - sonar.pullrequest.vsts.repository=mega-worker-dotnet
  - sonar.scanAllFiles=true
  - sonar.scanner.app=ScannerMSBuild
  - sonar.scanner.appVersion=5.4
  - sonar.scanner.metadataFilePath=/__w/_temp/sonar/20220203.6/d076ebf0-2bf8-fd9d-e0d1-66c02cc4ed6c/report-task.txt
  - sonar.sourceEncoding=US-ASCII
  - sonar.visualstudio.enable=false
  - sonar.working.directory=/__w/48/.sonarqube/out/.sonar
Scanner properties of module: afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:7488A04F-EAD7-490A-8743-8D62CCDAE406
  - sonar.cs.analyzer.projectOutPaths="/ __w/48/.sonarqube/out/0","/__ w/48/.sonarqube/out/2"
  - sonar.cs.roslyn.reportFilePaths="/ __w/48/.sonarqube/out/0/Issues.json","/__ w/48/.sonarqube/out/2/Issues.json"
  - sonar.moduleKey=afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:7488A04F-EAD7-490A-8743-8D62CCDAE406
  - sonar.projectBaseDir=/__w/48/s/src/MegaWorker
  - sonar.projectKey=afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:7488A04F-EAD7-490A-8743-8D62CCDAE406
  - sonar.projectName=MegaWorker
  - sonar.sourceEncoding=utf-8
  - sonar.sources="/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Model/MegaCase.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Model/MegaCreateCaseTask.cs","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Program.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Services/CaseApi.cs","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Services/CaseApiTokenService.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Services/ClaimRegistrationClient.cs","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Services/MegaCaseMapper.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Services/MegaTaskHandler.cs","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Worker.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/appsettings.Development.json","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/Properties/launchSettings.json","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorker/obj/Debug/net6.0/apphost"
  - sonar.working.directory=/__w/48/.sonarqube/out/.sonar/mod0
Scanner properties of module: afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:43BD8A9C-2FE3-47F0-951C-5D78548E1EB8
  - sonar.cs.analyzer.projectOutPaths="/ __w/48/.sonarqube/out/1","/__ w/48/.sonarqube/out/3"
  - sonar.cs.roslyn.reportFilePaths="/ __w/48/.sonarqube/out/1/Issues.json","/__ w/48/.sonarqube/out/3/Issues.json"
  - sonar.moduleKey=afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:43BD8A9C-2FE3-47F0-951C-5D78548E1EB8
  - sonar.projectBaseDir=/__w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests
  - sonar.projectKey=afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet:43BD8A9C-2FE3-47F0-951C-5D78548E1EB8
  - sonar.projectName=MegaWorkerTests
  - sonar.sourceEncoding=utf-8
  - sonar.sources=
  - sonar.tests="/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests/CaseApiTests.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests/ClaimRegistrationClientTest.cs","/ __w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests/MegaCaseMapperTest.cs","/__ w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests/MegaTaskHandlerTest.cs","/__w/48/s/src/MegaWorkerTests/claim-registration.json"
  - sonar.working.directory=/__w/48/.sonarqube/out/.sonar/mod1

```

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/colin/32/55255_2.png) [@Colin](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/4 "2022-02-07T10:43:16Z")

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> [@jonas.lundblad](#):
>
> I can see that the value of our project name (key: sonar.pullrequest.vsts.project) is wrongly encoded. Could that be the issue?
> 
> ```auto
> - sonar.pullrequest.vsts.project=Kundresa och v��rdestr��m
> 
> ```

Oh boy 😅 It sure looks like it could. Nice catch.

Looking into the logs, a 404 error is indeed being returned on this URL:

[https://afaforsakring.visualstudio.com/Kundresa%20och%20v%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDrdestr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDm/\_apis/git/repositories/mega-worker-dotnet?api-version=6.1-preview.1](https://afaforsakring.visualstudio.com/Kundresa%20och%20v%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDrdestr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDm/_apis/git/repositories/mega-worker-dotnet?api-version=6.1-preview.1)

If I try and guess what the actual characters or what language it is I’m sure I’ll mess up – can you let us know what the project name should be? If Microsoft supports such project names, so should we.

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/5 "2022-02-07T11:38:32Z")

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I won’t make you guess 😊

The project is named: Kundresa och värdeström (it’s in swedish)

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/colin/32/55255_2.png) [@Colin](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/7 "2022-02-07T11:41:10Z")

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Thanks. I’ll ping internally.

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**Author:** ![mickaelcaro](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/mickaelcaro/32/4147_2.png) [@mickaelcaro](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/mickaelcaro)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/8 "2022-02-07T16:29:19Z")

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Hi @jonas.lundblad

I just did a quick test on my side but wasn’t able to reproduce.

To help you troubleshoot, some questions/actions to do:

- Was your project created a long time ago on SonarCloud ?
- Can you display current env variables during a run of your pull request build, and check for the ‘SYSTEM\_TEAMPROJECT’ variable and its value : does you project name displays correctly there ?

Thanks.  
Mickaël

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/9 "2022-02-09T06:44:10Z")

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Hi

Thanks for checking.

No, the project was created just a few weeks ago. I’ve run the pull request pipeline with verbose turned on and everything looks fine from what I can see. The output for that variable is:

`##[debug]Set env: SYSTEM_TEAMPROJECT=Kundresa och värdeström`

Just to give give you som more details, this is the build, test and analyze job I use:

```auto
      - job: buildPr
        displayName: 'Build and Test analysis'
        container: dotnet-sdk
        steps:

          - task: SonarCloudPrepare@1
            inputs:
              SonarCloud: 'Sonarcloud'
              organization: 'afaforsakring'
              scannerMode: 'MSBuild'
              projectKey: 'afaforsakring_mega-worker-dotnet'
              projectName: 'mega-worker-dotnet'
              extraProperties: |
                sonar.cs.opencover.reportsPaths=**/coverage.opencover.xml

          - bash: |
              dotnet tool restore
              dotnet restore
              dotnet build
              dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" -- DataCollectionRunSettings.DataCollectors.DataCollector.Configuration.Format=opencover
            displayName: "Build"

          - task: SonarCloudAnalyze@1
          
          - task: SonarCloudPublish@1
            inputs:
              pollingTimeoutSec: '300'

```

The only thing I can see that differs from a project that has working PR decoration (apart from being a c# project) is that here we are using the SonarCloudAnalyze@1 and not the sonar plugin for maven/gradle .

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/10 "2022-02-15T06:17:47Z")

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Any update on this issue?

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**Author:** ![mickaelcaro](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/mickaelcaro/32/4147_2.png) [@mickaelcaro](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/mickaelcaro)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/11 "2022-02-15T06:48:25Z")

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Hi @jonas.lundblad

> [@](#):
>
> The only thing I can see that differs from a project that has working PR decoration (apart from being a c# project) is that here we are using the SonarCloudAnalyze@1 and not the sonar plugin for maven/gradle .

This is expected for a dotnet project.

So far as i told i was not able to reproduce, i will double check once more.

Mickaël

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/12 "2022-02-17T08:54:34Z")

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So if you aren’t able to reproduce what are my options?

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**Author:** ![mickaelcaro](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/mickaelcaro/32/4147_2.png) [@mickaelcaro](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/mickaelcaro)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/13 "2022-02-18T12:36:55Z")

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Hi @jonas.lundblad

Few more questions :

- If you create a new repository on this project; and you import it on SonarCloud (if your organization is bound to the one on Azure DevOps), do you see the characters printed correctly ?
- Are you using a self-hosted build agent or are you using one from azure devops ?
- Can you check what is the value of the LANG env variable if you have it ?
- Alternatively, can you send me a debug log of a pipeline execution please ? I can DM you for that, just let me know.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jonas.lundblad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jonas.lundblad](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/jonas.lundblad)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/14 "2022-02-23T09:53:18Z")

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Hi

No, unfortunately not. I still see the weird characters in the variable sonar.pullrequest.vsts.project.

I did as you said and created a new repository and imported it to SonarCloud.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/colin/32/55255_2.png) [@Colin](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/pull-request-decoration-i-azure-devops-not-working/57491/15 "2022-03-10T11:01:16Z")

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Hey @jonas.lundblad

I think this point from @mickaelcaro is important to follow up on.

> [@mickaelcaro](#):
>
> - Are you using a self-hosted build agent or are you using one from azure devops ?