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GravatarAPI: Create workpackage with a customfield

Added by robert alers 5 days ago

Use case:

Writing a simple VBA application for importing excel files into openproject.

What works:

A post to /work_packages with basis auth and the following JSON body:

{ "subject": "the subject",  "description": { "raw": "the description" }, "startDate": "2018-09-29" }

This works perfectly, although when I try to push a custom field, like so:

{ "subject": "the subject",  "description": { "raw": "the description" }, "customField8": "CustomField TEST", "startDate": "2018-09-29" }

The custom field stays 'null'. Data type for this specific field is as follows:

"customField8": {
       "type": "String",
       "name": "Source",
       "required": false,
       "hasDefault": false,
       "writable": true,
       "visibility": "default"
   },

What am i missing?

Thanks in advance!


Replies (2)

Gravatar RE: API: Create workpackage with a customfield - Added by Bernd Petraus 4 days ago

Hi Robert,

i've done something very similar (get, create and edit workpackages with any kind of attributes), I would like to share with you.

Whats missing is some refacotring and claning up some hardcoded stuff, that was meant for testing. So, please give me a weekend or something.

But anyway, what response do you get?

Btw.: I would highly recommend this JsonParser, if you are familiar with dictionaries and collections in Excel: https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-JSON

Best Regards

Bernd

Gravatar RE: API: Create workpackage with a customfield - Added by robert alers 1 day ago

Hi Bernd,

Thank you for the reply!

I get the standard response: 201 - Created with a list of all fields, note that the customField8 stays NULL.

Thanks for the tip! I already used the JsonParser module in my current project. Are you writing an excel addon by any chance? This would be awesome for people migrating to the OpenProject platform.

Love to hear if you can resolve this issue!

Regards,

Robert

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