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Issue Connectors are used as a simple way of generating hyperlinks to your issue tracking system. Once an Issue Connector is created, you can assign it to a repository you've previously setup in Continua. Whenever the next build is started, the issue connector will get the change sets associated with the build then parse those change set commit messages for issue id's. It will then take those issue id's from the commit message and generate a hyperlink to that issue in your issue tracking system. The list of hyperlinks will be displayed in the "Issues" tab when viewing a build. Issue Connectors do not interact with your issue tracking system, they just generate hyperlinks to it! It won't open or close issues or require any kind of login to your system.
Why use an Issue Connector?
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http://www.issues.com/issue/29981
http://www.issues.com/issue/44412
http://www.issues.com/issue/9881
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