Get Iteration Start and End Dates, based on Iteration ID

[mmuresan]

Feature Request

When the Work Item's iteration is changing, I need to update a custom field in the work item, with the new iteration's end date.
That means, I need to be able to read the start date and end date from the Iteration (if it is set for that iteration).
Is that possible now?

[BobSilent]

Currently this is not possible, if you're interested: I think I can provide you a code snippet for your rule code, which can support you in getting the information.
It will be a workaround until a proper solution would be available.

[mmuresan]

Please. If you can provide a code snipped to get the start and end dates from the iteration using the iterationid, which is already available, I would be able to solve this issue. Thanks.

[BobSilent]

It is not nice in rule code, but it should do the work.
btw. I did not test it.

You need

• a PAT
• URL
• teamproject name
• the node id, here 11111

var clientCredentials = new VssBasicCredential("PAT", "<token>");
var devops = new VssConnection(new Uri("https://..."), clientCredentials);

var client = devops.GetClient<WorkItemTrackingHttpClient>();

var nodes = await client.GetClassificationNodesAsync("<teamproject name>", new []{ 11111 });
var node = nodes.Single();

then you can access e.g. node.Name or node.Path

var startDate = node.Attributes["startDate"] as string;
var finishDate = node.Attributes["finishDate"] as string;

the string will look like that:

"attributes": {
    "startDate": "2017-03-22T00:00:00Z",
    "finishDate": "2017-09-05T00:00:00Z"
},

[mmuresan]

Thanks. I'll try it out.
BTW. Can I create inside the rule one or more common reusable methods to call multiple times inside the rule?

[BobSilent]

please see the advanced examples there is an example with a method which get called several times in the rule

[mmuresan]

It would be very nice to have these examples in the main documentation.
After testing this, I might contribute to this extremely nice project and add it to the Examples documentation.

Thanks again.

[mmuresan]

Can I call multiple times, in the same rule, store.NewWorkItem?

[BobSilent]

Sure, this is supported