API - How to create a Task using the API - with User Story as WorkProduct / Parent

Products

• Rally SaaS

Issue/Introduction

API - How to create a Task using the API - with User Story as WorkProduct / Parent

 

Resolution

A Task cannot be an orphan artifact.  It will need a parent (otherwise known as WorkProduct).  Here is how to create a Task with Parent as User Story.

    POST /slm/webservice/v2.0/task/create HTTP/1.1
    Cookie:
     zsessionid:<API Key - include the underscore before the key>     Content-Length: 318
    Content-Type: application/json
    Host: rally1.rallydev.com
    {
      "Task": {
        "Workspace": {
          "_ref": "/workspace/<WORKSPACE_OID>"
        },
            "Project": {
          "_ref": "/project/<PROJECT_OID>"
        },
            "WorkProduct": {
          "_ref": "/hierarchicalrequirement/<STORY_OID>"
        },
        "Name": "API - create task as child of US test 11111",
        "Estimate": "1"
      }
    }