I have a requirement to copy an existing dashboard dashboard in an org(source org) to a different org(target org) under a different ado instance by any means possible. Dashboard can have widgets and widgets can be linked to
pipeline
Query - A query can be referencing to a user, team, project, custom values of a standard field, custom fields
some other things that i have not encountered so far
So far my steps are as follows
get dashboard details using get dashboard rest api
identify widgets in dashboard details api response
get any pipeline if there is no pipeline create a dummy one and use its details for a widget that is using pipeline
identify distinct queries present in all widgets
create its equivalent query in target org and save its id
replace queryid in widget settings to its equivalent created queryid in targetorg
create dashboard in target org
I am facing issue in step 5
There are lot of moving variables in a query. Query might be referencing to things that does not exist in target org like a particular user, team, custom values of a standard field, custom fields. In order to create a query successfully i need to know possible values of a field in target org. While creating a new query from ui it shows possible values for a field in dropdown so i am wondering is there any rest api that gives possible values of a field and if no such field exist in target org then it should throw error.
Looking forward to suggestions for a simpler or alternative approach to replicate a dashboard across different ado instance and/or better approach for step 5
If you are looking for a rest api the query the fields in your target process of the organization, you could refer to this doc. Field-list.
GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/work/processes/{processId}/workItemTypes/{witRefName}/fields?api-version=6.0-preview.2
After that, you could create the fields in your target process, you could refer to this rest api. Fields-Create
POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/work/processdefinitions/{processId}/fields?api-version=4.1-preview.1
Or could you share more details of your requirement, like screenshots and widget definition or dashboards configuration for update.
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I know one can use REST API to query Pipeline activities but is there anyway to query Pipeline components ( i.e, listing of linked services, sources, sinks, parameters, etc.)
Right now I'm manually recording all the components I see in the pipeline and querying these components would make this listing faster and more accurate
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Thanks, Jeannie
I haven't found a way to get all the components of a pipeline directly. If the information you want to obtain is defined in the YAML file, you cannot directly obtain it, you may need to parse the YAML file to obtain it.
If the information you want to get is defined on the UI, such as variables, you can get it through the REST API Definitions - Get. And you can get the resources of the pipeline through Resources - List.
I need to extract a table with test steps that correspond to each test case, from AzureDevops to PowerBI.
I was able to retrieve a list of tables that I can extract with odata, but none of them contains test steps. I’m attaching the metadata request and an extract of its results. extract
I’ve read that another possibility would be you to use an api query, but I’m not sure which one.
Does anyone know a possible solution?
Thank you.
According to the note in this documentation,
You can’t add fields with a data type of Plain Text (long text) or HTML (rich-text). These fields aren’t available from Analytics for the purposes of reporting.
And the type of the Steps field is Text (multiple lines), so they cannot be extract with odata.
You can try to use this REST API to get the detail of the testcase which will contain the Steps detail. Please refer the screenshot:
I am extracting the list of bugs from Azure Devops using Query. I was able to extract the bugs but it was extracted only with ID, Description, work item type and assigned to fields alone. I wanted to extract the list of bugs with some more fields like closed by, created by, raised by. I have explored custom setting but I could not able to get the desired result. Let me know if this is achievable in Azure Devops please.
In Azure DevOps portal, seems you could not export them to csv with these values.
You could export them and get the work item ids, then use the REST API - Work Items - Get Work Item in a loop, the API will return the values you want.
Please refer to the sample response here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/work-items/get-work-item?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0#get-work-item
Want to store an object inside a workflow then want to receive it through cadence api.
ListOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest listOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest=new ListOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest();
listOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest.setDomain(DOMAIN);
listOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest.setStartTimeFilter(startTimeFilter);
ListOpenWorkflowExecutionsResponse response=
cadenceService.ListOpenWorkflowExecutions(listOpenWorkflowExecutionsRequest);*
I am open to go with any solution.
Use the QueryWorkflowExecution API to retrieve information from a single workflow.
The list API is used to get lists of workflows without querying them directly. You can attach custom information (called memo) to a visibility record that is returned by a list API. Use WorkflowOptions.memo property to add it.
The memo is not indexable. If you want the ability to index on custom attributes use the Search Attributes feature. One other feature of search attributes is that they are updatable from the workflow code using upsertSearchAttributes API. So for example, if the workflow code updates the "state" attribute on each state transition then it would be possible to find all the workflows in a given state. Also, all the search attributes are returned by the list API so their value can be shown in the UI list view even if they are not part of the search predicate. Note that this requires Elastic Search cluster integration enabled.
I've a tool(web application) which creates work-items in azure devops. (skipping the unnecessary details), just like how we assign any user a particular work-item from the Assigned To dropdown in azure devops, I too have a dropdown which when user enters any name/alias, a list of users starts showing based on the input.
The api which I was using in the backend was
https://abcorganization.vsaex.visualstudio.com/_apis/UserEntitlements?top=10&filter=name+eq+%27Tejas
Here filter=name+eq+%27Tejas in the query parameter helps to query the api and used to give set of users whose name starts with Tejas. It can be email alias too.
But for some reason, that doesn't work anymore. My guess, they've deprecated that API version
So in my search to find the alternative/answer, I came across the following documentation:
(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/graph/users/get?view=azure-devops-rest-5.1) in which the API given is: https://vssps.dev.azure.com/abcorganization/_apis/graph/users/{userDescriptor}?api-version=5.1-preview.1
Here the userDescriptor is some sort of unique key of AAD related to a particular user. (which I certainly can't use to fulfill my purpose).
The other thing which I've tried is the below query parameters but it still didn't worked out
https://vssps.dev.azure.com/abcorganization/_apis/graph/users?subjectTypes={subjectTypes}&continuationToken={continuationToken}&api-version=5.1-preview.1
So is there anyway/api which can fullfil my purpose or is it that I'm using this new API in a wrong way or something?
Any help would be much appreciated
I believe it should be $filter in the query. You are also missing the closing quote.
(See docs for more details)
https://abcorganization.vsaex.visualstudio.com/_apis/UserEntitlements?top=10&$filter=name+eq+'Tejas'
Use this. I tested it and worked for me:
https://vsaex.dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/userentitlements?$filter=name+eq+%27{name}%27&api-version=6.0-preview.3
Replace {organization} and {name} as needed