Attribute Customizations - Calculated Value - How do I extract a name from the UUID for Creator

David Murphy (11●1●4●3) | asked Apr 10 '13, 5:33 p.m.
edited Apr 11 '13, 1:08 a.m. by Ralph Schoon (61.8k●3●36●43)

I want to assign the name of the work item's creator to a custom field. I can figure out how to extract the UUID for the Creator field, but don't know how to fetch the name in the form of a string for my calculated value script from the UUID.

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sam detweiler (12.5k●6●189●201) | answered Apr 10 '13, 11:43 p.m.

currently there is no mechanism to get from UUID to contributor name in Javascript

see https://jazz.net/forum/questions/80964/how-to-get-contributor-name-by-javascript
you would have to write a java participant server plugin

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Ralph Schoon (61.8k●3●36●43) | answered Apr 11 '13, 1:09 a.m.
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Try workItem.getLabel().

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sam detweiler commented Apr 11 '13, 7:52 a.m.

getlabel() on what? the UUID or the contributor entry?

Ralph Schoon commented Apr 11 '13, 8:24 a.m.

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instead of

var uuid= workItem.getValue( WorkItemAttributes.OWNER );

try using

var name_or_id = workItem.getLabel( WorkItemAttributes.OWNER );

I am not sure if it returns the readable user ID or the user name though.

David Murphy commented Apr 11 '13, 11:21 a.m.

Cannot find function getLabel in object [object com.ibm.team.workitem.shared.common.internal.scripting.facades.WorkItemAPIType].

my js statement: workItem.getLabel(WorkItemAttributes.CREATOR)

Ralph Schoon commented Apr 11 '13, 11:26 a.m.

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I used it in https://jazz.net/library/article/1093 Lab 5 and it works for me. It might have been introduced in 4.0.

David Murphy commented Apr 12 '13, 11:59 a.m.

I am using your js and I am erroring out on this statement,

out+="Creator Name: " + workItem.getLabel(WorkItemAttributes.CREATOR)+"\n";

Tried this with RTC 4.0.1

Ralph Schoon commented Apr 12 '13, 12:06 p.m. | edited Apr 13 '13, 8:38 a.m.

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I am using my lab 5 solution files from https://jazz.net/library/article/1093 (calculated against the description) and it works for me in 4.0.1. It actually provides the name and not the ID.

David Murphy commented Apr 12 '13, 4:57 p.m.

works fine when you use the right client, duh, thanks

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