Seapine Surround SCM ticket creation - ticket-system

I'm relatively new with Seapines SurroundSCM API, so I might just be missing something obvious. Is there a way to generate a ticket that is then sent to TestTrack whenever a file is checked in using the SurroundSCM API? I'm being told there is a way to do it, but I can't find anything in the documentation or their site.

It is not possible to perform this action from the Surround SCM API because creating a defect/ticket is a TestTrack operation. Here are two potential approaches to take.
(1) Your application can use the addDefect function in the TestTrack API to create a new defect/ticket. So your application would use the Surround SCM API to check in the file and the TestTrack API to create the defect/ticket.
(2) You could create a second application to create a new defect/ticket via the TestTrack API. This second application could be run as the result of a Surround SCM trigger event. You could configure the preconditions of the SCM trigger to be limited to a specific group of users or specific repository.

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What is the process for changing the "lead owner" through the salesforce API?

Currently creating an automation using zapier which should change the lead owner in salesforce when the event takes place. It successfully reaches salesforce but does not actually change the "lead owner" but it is instead reflected in the lead history section. There is no clear salesforce workflow or rule in place which should prevent this automation from occurring.
When the automation executes as you can see above, the lead owner successfully changes in the lead history but it does not actually change the lead owner of the actual lead so we are manually having to go back and change this.
Has anybody else faced similar issues when working with the salesforce API when changing the lead owner and if so what was the solution?
Check Lead assignment rules. It's separate area in Setup, different from workflows, flows, process builder and triggers.
You probably have an active rule that runs on update, not only on insert. Your API call works OK, changes the OwnerId field but then the assignment rule overwrites that. That's why you see it as 2 entries in history.
You can also confirm what's going on byenabling debug logging on the integration user and check if it captures anything.
Optionally you could also suppress the assignment rule during the update. This is... questionable. I mean talk with your SF admin first, if you suppress the rule then you moved bit of logic out of salesforce. 2 months later nobody will remember why something doesn't fire, it's cleaner to just modify the rule to skip these records.
If Zapier uses SF REST API there's a HTTP header it should send, Sforce-Auto-Assign: FALSE. If it uses SOAP API - similar thing will have to be set in the SOAP message's header, check the WSDL for exact syntax?
We solved this, just broke down the issue and resolved by doing the following (This was beyond the standard salesforce scope of support as we use custom prefill URL's for anybody wondering):
Create a new hidden field called something such as 'tmp_owner'
Assign the new lead owner ID to a new text field called 'tmp_owner' which is hidden on
the lead field to other salesforce org users
Added a salesforce workflow rule when this 'tmp_owner' is populated replace the 'lead owner' field with the data.

Create TFS Source Branch using Visual Studio Online / TFS 2015 Api

Does anyone know how to create a branch using the VSO Api. The documentation for Branches doesn't include a "create".
I have been experimenting with doing it via the ChangeSet Api without much success.
This is TFVC, not Git.
Just as what you see in "Branches" page, there isn't any way to create branch with the Rest API. And mostly, you can only read/get the information with the Version Control API for now.
I would recommend you to use Client Object Model Reference if you want to manage the Version Control programmatically. To create a branch, use the "CreateBranch()" method in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionControlServer class.
The REST API apparently does allow one to create branches.
The confusion is that people think that this would be a PUT operation on the Branches endpoint of some kind.
It is not.
In the REST API, a branch is just one more kind of change that is checked in as part of a changeset.
It took me a long time to discover this, myself; and I was using the old SOAP API in the belief, shared by everyone else it appears from what I can find in Q&As on the WWW, that this wasn't part of the REST API.
Of course, using the SOAP API prohibits using .NET 5, because the assemblies only come for .NET Framework.
An abandonware API on an abandonware runtime is not a satisfactory way to talk to source control. ☺
The terrible Azure DevOps documentation gives no clue as to this, except for 1 obscure not-even-a-complete-sentence hidden in a minor class: "List of merge sources in case of rename or branch creation."
The only other clue is what appears in the JSON, from a get changeset changes, that describes the changeset of an already-made branch.
The (also abandoned) Azure DevOps sample code does not contain examples for even deleting an item, let alone branching.
Changesets are checked in via the changeset creation endpoint.
The individual change is a TfvcChange in the changeset's list of changes where:
the version control type (which is a set of flags) contains the branch flag; and
the merge source for the change specifies the source item and the range of changeset numbers.
Branching an entire tree appears to be a matter of branching the directory and all of the files and directories in the directory.
In C♯ or PowerShell, this is a TfvcChange with a VersionControlChangeType of Branch, in a TfvcChangeset passed to TfvcHttpClientBase.CreateChangesetAsync().

Adding recipient Groups to a CiviCRM Mailing via REST.. how?

I have been able so far to create a new civi Mailing object and populate it, but confusingly I can't see a parameter in that to specify the mail destination group.
For context, I am dealing with Civi using pure REST api from a remote server. I have a solution to getting a custom template onto the server; the new problem is setting a schedule and delivery group, and initiating the send. I am using the python-civicrm library from github as the intermediary on the client.
I presume send happens as a result of setting the schedule -- i.e. I don't need an API call to say 'send mailing'? Is setting 'sheduled date' == 'now' safe or should I set a date of 'now + 1min' or similar?
So that leaves setting the delivery group. We already have groups defined in the DB, and I want to specify the group by name (and preferably be able to verify in advance that a group name is a valid destination, perhaps by doing a group name -> id lookup).
I think there might be a parameter to Mailing create 'groups' which can have keys 'include' and 'exclude'; at least, that's what the web form seems to do. However it's not mentioned in the REST api implementation.
Can anyone offer pointers?
I think you will find all you need in the following link :
Example of api call that is using the group include/exclude : https://gist.github.com/xurizaemon/6775471
Discussion about implementing mailing as an api - http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=24075.0
Otherwise, if it doesn't work, i suggest that you :
help adding this api in the CiviCRM Core - you could have some help on this on irc #civicrm (and have a look at https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-11023)
OR create an extension with the api you need. It will be automatically available for REST. If you haven't created an extension yet, i suggest you go to the page http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Create+a+Module+Extension. It's quite straightforward with civix installed.
The table you need to check in the database is civicrm_mailing_group
To confirm, the problem was that (a) I needed to use groups[include]=array(ids) as mentioned by samuelsov, but also (b) I needed to use the json={...} form of request through REST, because the HTTP params syntax doesn't support nested data.

AtTask create/update a custom field through API on project creation created through AtTask's web app

I'm looking to use AtTask's API to update or create a custom field (ie. assign a custom ID apart from AtTask's auto-generated id) whenever a project is created through the web app. But I have not found anything about handling events in the API documentation.
I'm able to retrieve/edit project fields when issuing a request by ID or some other search parameter.
But I'm having trouble finding ways to edit project fields on some event like 'project created'.
One way I can think of is to have my script periodically search for new projects based on project metadata and edit projects that way, but there must be a better solution I probably missed.
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE:
It seems 'AtTask event subscriptions' was what I was looking for. At the time of the post below (12/2013), due to scalability issues, AtTask has turned this feature turned off with no ETA on resolving the issue. See here: Does AtTask event subscription work?
Any updates would be appreciated.
You are correct the AtTask API does not currently support events. The easiest thing to do is to just poll the system for updates using the search. You could also monitor an email address for emails that are sent upon project creation. The email will contain the project/task/issue ID that you can use to update events.

Adding licence field to WSO2 API in API manager

I have the need to add a licence field to the APIs published by the API manager.
It does not seems to be any extension point beyond the api.rxt file in the resource folder.
If I modify the file and run the application the carbon app correctly show the added field, but nor the publishe nor the store are able to get the field and there is no way to get it also with REST APIs since it calls a method of a class that (in later versions) outputted fields positionally.
Is it possible to add the field, without running the risk of crashing the API Manager?
Which is the correct way?
Thanks
This change cannot be done without modifying the code. When an API is created from the Publisher app, it gets stored in the registry. The api.txt you modified, only defines the structure of this stored artifact. It may add a new field to the artifact, but to correctly populate that field, you need to modify several methods in APIProviderHostObject and APIProviderImpl + several Jaggery scripts.