I've started to develop custom HTML report in Rally and I need to get somehow TASK REMAINING TOTAL. I can see it changes in description field of model "ArtifactNotification" (like: "description: TASK ESTIMATE TOTAL changed from [19.0] to [21.0], TASK REMAINING TOTAL changed from [18.0] to [20.0]"), but I can't find a proper model in Rally.data.wsapi.store for making a reference to it and get a number of remaining hours.
Model 'Task' does not have it.
Probably somebody knows where is it?
AppSDK2 model 'task' does not have it because
TaskEstimateTotal,
TaskRemainingTotal exist on user story object in Web Services API. Please see WS API documentation, specifically HierarchicalRequirement (a.k.a user story) in the Object Model. The values for those attributes on a user story are read only and roll up from Estimate and ToDo attributes of individual tasks.
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For our Spartacus project, we need to introduce additional Data properties in the checkout:
We have the case, that the user needs to select a delivery mode per product.
In an ideal world, upon selection, the selected delivery mode would be saved in the NGRX Store and also in the Backend to stay within the principle of the data binding defined here: https://sap.github.io/spartacus-docs/connecting-to-other-systems/#component-data-binding
Expected Data / User flow:
User goes to Checkout and to Delivery Mode Step
Custom OCC Call is made to load the supported delivery modes for each product (depends on product type and further customer specific logic)
The cart items are displayed, enhanced with a dropdown containing the available delivery modes
The user selects a delivery mode
The selected delivery mode is stored on the cart entry within the NGRX Store and saved in the backend
The new Cart totals is calculated based on the costs of the selected delivery mode
The new Cart totals is stored on the cart within the NGRX Store and saved in the backend
The user clicks on continue to get to the Review Order Step
The cart items are listed with the previously selected delivery mode
After some analysis of the existing code, we found a property deliveryMode on the orderEntry. This does not seem to be used anywhere in spartacus, but could be used to make Step 9 work by following this stackoverflow answer and this one.
Questions regarding this flow:
How can we extend the NGRX Store? We assume, it would be possible to just extend the facade (Active Cart Service), bypass the store and save the information in the backend (Described here) and afterwards refresh the store from the backend. Is that Assumption correct? If yes, that feels awkward though, as we need to reload the whole store just to contain the new property deliveryMode on the orderEntry
How can we hook into the price calculation of the cart totals to update the total based on the selected delivery mode? And again, how can we bring the new total sum into the store?
There seem to be several Answers within the Slack Channel without very few usable answers around extending the ngrx store, even though for us, it seems to be a quit normal task.. :-/
Any thoughts, inputs or support would be very appreciated. :-)
This seems like a difficult thing to accomplish seeing as delivery modes per product aren't supported as-is in spartacus. But some ideas:
You can extend core CartEntry classes (adapter, connecter, facade, etc.) to include the delivery mode for entries added to the cart. You will probably need to change all to include the delivery mode setting(s). All of these are exposed so you can modify them as needed including the store.
Utilizing multiple carts to have a product per cart and set delivery mode that way. But this would be cumbersome in my opinion.
As far as price calculation goes, I'm assuming OCC calls return total prices. Does the call for the cart entries include delivery mode costs per entry?
We have implemented the following work around and it works so far:
Enhance the Cart Model in the backend
Add new Endpoints to load the available delivery Modes per Product (by bypassing the NGRX Store)
Add new Endpoints to save the selected Delivery Mode (by bypassing the NGRX Store)
After Save Endpoint, a cart Reload is triggered, which loads the new cart totals having a custom property on the order entry (via type augmentation) into the store from the backend
It's already a lot of years past since Spartacus project started, but looks like it's still really raw projects. Spartacus is not ready to deal with real word customer's requirement and complexity of customize it quickly grow at real project(so you start to think do we really need it, as it's so unflexible at some dimentions). Some parts is really hard or not possible to customize, so you begin to search a workarounds(This question is one common case).
I think NGRX Store is one of the biggest pain in the ass to customize something at Spartacus. 2 years past and nothing changed by Spartacus team...
I am looking for fields in task called is_completed and completed_on.
When I do the /projects/#PROJECT-ID#/tasks API call I see is_completed but I do not see completed_on.
We are using the Cloud based version of Active Collab 4.
Any reason why I am not seeing completed_on?
In Active Collab 4, there is a difference between "brief" API responses (used when returning large lists of objects), and detailed responses (used when a single object is returned via API).
When you are listing a list of tasks, you will get all individual tasks in brief format, but when you fetch details of each task, you'll get a detailed response.
In brief task responses, completed_on timestamp is not included, only whether tasks is completed or not (is_completed). To get the timestamp of completed tasks, make an additional call to task API for each task that is completed:
https://activecollab.com/help-classic/books/api/tasks#s-task-id
PS: In Active Collab 5, we removed brief and detailed concept, so each object always returns a single set of properties.
I'm trying to aggregate some information about the kanban states of my user stories. If query a PifTeam item, I get a summarized collection of UserStories associated with it.
Example query:
https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm/webservice/1.40/portfolioitem/pifteam/99999999999.js
However I then have to run a loop on the UserStories collection, individually querying each one to get at the information I need. This potentially results in a lot of web service calls.
Is there a way to return the full hierarchical requirement information in the original pifteam query so that there is only one webservice call which returns all sub-objects? I read the webservice api and was trying to play with the fetch parameter but had no success.
This functionality will be disabled in WSAPI 2.0 but will continue to be available in the 1.x versions. That said, you should be able to use a fetch the fields on story that you need like this:
/pifteam/9999.js?fetch=UserStories,FormattedID,Name,PlanEstimate,KanbanState
Fetch will hydrate the fields specified on sub objects even if the root object type doesn't have those fields. So by fetching UserStories the returned collection will populated with stories, each having the FormattedID, Name, PlanEstimate and KanbanState fields included.
There is no way to do it from Rally's standard Web Services API (WSAPI) but you can from the new Lookback API (LBAPI). The query would look something like this:
https://rally1.rallydev.com/analytics/v2.0/service/rally/workspace/<ObjectID_for_Workspace>/artifact/snapshot/query.js?find={__At:"current",_TypeHierarchy:"HierarchicalRequirement",Children:null,_ItemHierarchy:<ObjectID_for_PortfolioItem>}&fields=["Name"]
Fill in the ObjectIDs for your Workspace and PortfolioItem. The _ItemHierarchy field will cross work item type boundaries and goes all the way from PortfolioItems down through the Story hierarchy down to Defects and even Tasks, so I added _TypeHierarchy:"HierarchicalRequirement" to limit it to Stories. I have specified Children:null which means you'll only get back leaf Stories. The __At:"current" clause get's the current tree and values. Remember, it's the "Lookback" API, so you can retrieve the state of the object at any moment in history. __At:"current" says to get the current values and tree.
Note, the LBAPI is delayed from current values in the system by anywhere from seconds to minutes. Typically it's about 30 seconds behind. You can see how far behind it is by checking the ETLDate field in the response.
Details about the LBAPI can be found here. Note, that the LBAPI is available in preview now for almost all Rally customers. There are still a number of customers where it is not yet turned on. The best way to tell if it's working for your subscription is to try the query.
From within Asana, we can see how the tasks are split into "Now", "Next" and "later" in project view as well as "Today", "Upcoming" and "later" in user. I can't seem to find the API required to identify the tasks in each category. Is this functionality available for developers?
(I work at Asana)
In the reference for Tasks at https://asana.com/developers/api-reference/tasks, the docs describe the assignee_status field. This will give you the today/upcoming/later status for a task assigned to a user.
In project view, these statuses don't exist so I assume that by now/next/later you are referring to "priority headings", or arbitrary labels that you are able to create inside any list by ending the name of a task with a colon (:). There is not currently a way to find out which priority heading a task is under via the API.
If knowing the priority heading containing a task is important, you could iterate over the results (which by default show up in the same order they do in the UI), keeping track of which priority heading you saw last. This is inelegant and prone to problems if you filter the task list in some way (and possibly don't get all the priority headings as a result), but it might help you get the job done until a better solution is provided.
If you are querying for a list of tasks, make sure you add the opt_fields=assignee_status parameter and that field will be provided in each of your results.
I'd been looking at using the Rally API to create an app to do some simple auto-ranking stories based on specific criteria (at the request of / to help out a couple of our Product Owners) in a drag&drop workspace.
I did this by adjusting the "Rank" properties of the sequence of stories (I made sure to keep the rank values within the same overall min / max range as prior to the auto-reorder). I made a call to the API to update each story's rank individually (in quick succession).
Testing the app, I found that sometimes after running the auto-ranking app, some screens (such as the kanban board) would tell me that "drag and drop re-ranking is disabled for manual rank workspaces" (and the kanban would no longer let me drag & drop, although other screens such as the backlog would still let me drag & drop, and the workspace settings were still set to drag & drop). Deleting the stories, or reordering them on the backlog screen would return things back to normal.
After trying a few ideas to solve this, I figured perhaps if I was updating the Rank on a number of stories in quick succession, the back-end might be getting confused with these (potentially several / concurrent) requests. Introducing a delay between each story's API call has seemed to avoid the problem, and to speed things up, I now update a story's rank in the API only after the previous story's rank update has invoked the "updateComplete" function.
Do the assumptions in the last paragraph above make sense based on the backend ranking? Is there any Javascript API call to update multiple stories at once? (Otherwise I'm quite happy with the solution of only calling the API "update rank" after the prior API "rank update" call has returned ok).
That sounds like you discovered a possible issue with the backend ranking. The warning you were getting stems from the board trying to figure out which type of workspace you are in (manual or dnd rank). Since that setting is not currently available via WSAPI the board tries to figure it out based on its data and sometimes gets it wrong.
Currently there is no fully supported/documented way to adjust the ranks of items via WSAPI. The Card Board component in the App SDK uses special rankAbove and rankBelow query string parameters during update calls (which you can see in Firebug or the Chrome dev tools).
How are you currently setting the Rank values?