Documentation: How to create a new Work Item that is a child of an existing Work Item? about tfs HOT 5 CLOSED

@dgtlrift, there is no "clean" way (yet) to do it with our library.

However, the connection.create_workitem method has the relations_raw parameter that you could use to add links right away.

The code for using relations_raw should look like this:

existing_wi = TFSAPI.get_workitem(123)

parent_link_raw = 
	[
		{
			"rel": "System.LinkTypes.Hierarchy-Reverse", # existing WI will be a parent, new WI will be a child
			"url": existing_wi.url
			"attributes": {
				"isLocked": false
			}
		},
	]

new_wi = TFSAPI.create_workitem("Task", parent_link_raw)

This is a temporary solution as we are yet to implement adding "normal" links, attachments and now raw JSON, but it should work.

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@ihar512, sorry for the delay.

Troubleshooting steps would be the following:

1. Ensure that creating a regular (non-linked) item works:
   new_wi = client.create_workitem("Task")
2. Ensure that linking that item to the parent item works:
   new_wi.add_relations_raw(parent_link_raw)

Let me know if you need any extra info on any of these steps.
When both creation and linking work, the whole thing should also work.

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@SAnCherepan I actually tried what you suggested and it doesn't seems to work. Here is the error I am getting, could you give me some suggestions? Thanks.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tfsfsa.py", line 40, in
new_wi = client.create_workitem("Task", fields=None, relations_raw=parent_link_raw)
File "C:\Python36\tfs\connection.py", line 197, in create_workitem
api_version)
File "C:\Python36\tfs\connection.py", line 170, in __create_workitem
raw = self.rest_client.send_post(uri=uri, data=data, headers=headers, project=True, payload=params)
File "C:\Python36\tfs\connection.py", line 343, in send_post
return self.__send_request('POST', uri, data, headers, payload=payload, project=project)
File "C:\Python36\tfs\connection.py", line 386, in __send_request
response.status_code, result['error'] if 'error' in result else response.reason))
tfs.connection.TFSClientError: TFS API returned HTTP 400 (Bad Request)

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Also here is my code,

existing_wi = client.get_workitem(9133)
parent_link_raw = [
{
"rel": "System.LinkTypes.Hierarchy-Reverse", # existing WI will be a parent, new WI will be a child
"url": existing_wi.url,
"attributes": {
"isLocked":False
}
},
]
new_wi = client.create_workitem("Task", relations_raw=parent_link_raw)

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@SAnCherepan, I was able to resolve this issue with your suggestion. Thank you!

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