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Azure – How to make inherited process work Item editable?

In a nutshell, I created an inherited process from the REST API, when I try to add a state or a field, I get an error because it uses the reference name from the original work item, not it’s own.

For example: Microsoft.VSTS.WorkItemTypes.Bug instead of processName.Bug.

function newProcess {
param (
    [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string]     $organization,
    [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string]     $process,
    [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string]     $description,
    [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string]     $parent,
    [Parameter(Mandatory)] [hashtable]  $header
)

[string] $uri = "https://dev.azure.com/{0}/_apis/work/processes?{1}" -f $organization, $apiVersion
[string] $body = @{ name = $process; parentProcessTypeId = (getProcessId -organization $organization -process $parent -header $header); description = $description } | ConvertTo-Json

try {
    [string] $id = (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method Post -ContentType application/json -Body $body -Headers $header).typeId

    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1.0
    if ( $id -eq (getProcessId -organization $organization -process $process -header $header) ) {
        Write-Host " - Process '$process' successfully created in organization $organization !"
        return ($id)
    } else {
        throw
    }

} catch {
    Write-Host "##[error] An error occurred while creating the Process $process in the organization $organization at $uri"
    Get-Error
    throw
}
}

If I update the state or field from Azure manually, it will change the name, how can I automate that from the Azure REST API?

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Answers


  1. 0

    To start editing work item types in the inherited process, create the inherited work item type. Use this method Work Item Types – Create and add this reference:

    inheritsFrom – Parent work item type for work item type

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  2. 0

    For the newly created inherited process, you should create an inherited work item type before editing it as mentioned by @Shamrai Aleksander. For each work item type, if you want to change it, you need to create a corresponding inherited work item type. Change the value of ParentWorkItemType below.

    $token = "{PAT}"
$token = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($token)"))
$head = @{ Authorization =" Basic $token" }
$org = "{Org name}"

# Create a new inherited process
$url1="https://dev.azure.com/$org/_apis/work/processes?api-version=7.1-preview.2"
$body1 = @'
{
  "name": "MyNewAgileProcessTest",
  "parentProcessTypeId": "adcc42ab-9882-485e-a3ed-7678f01f66bc",
  "description": "My new process"
}
'@

$newprocess = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url1 -Method Post -Headers $head -Body $body1 -ContentType application/json
$newprocess| ConvertTo-Json
$newprocessid = $newprocess.typeId
$newprocessname = $newprocess.name

# Define the parent work item type
$ParentWorkItemType = "Bug"
# Define the inherited work item type. It is "inherited process name +parent work item type".
$witRefName = $newprocessname + "." + $ParentWorkItemType


# Create a new inherited work item type. 
$body2 = @{
  "color" = "CC293D"
  "description" = "Describes a divergence between required and actual behavior, and tracks the work done to correct the defect and verify the correction."
  "icon" = "icon_insect"
  "inheritsFrom" = $null
  "name" = $null
  "isDisabled" = $false
}
$body2["name"] = $ParentWorkItemType
$body2["inheritsFrom"] = "Microsoft.VSTS.WorkItemTypes.$ParentWorkItemType"
$body2 = $body2 | ConvertTo-Json

$url2="https://dev.azure.com/$org/_apis/work/processes/$newprocessid/workItemTypes?api-version=5.0"
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url2 -Method Post -Headers $head -Body $body2 -ContentType application/json


#Add a state to the inherited work item type
$url3="https://dev.azure.com/$org/_apis/work/processes/$newprocessid/workItemTypes/$witRefName/states?api-version=7.1-preview.1"
$body3 = @'
{
  "name": "Ready to test",
  "color": "b2b2b2",
  "stateCategory": "Proposed"
}
'@
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url3 -Method Post -Headers $head -Body $body3 -ContentType application/json
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