REST API command to find the next available work item ID (or the highest used ID)?
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I need a single HTTP command to return data that includes the next available work item ID or highest used ID for the currently logged-in repository.
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Just for interest's sake, what would you use that information for?
and not to be a downer, but I don't think that info is available. query for the highest is by project area, not server wide. and could change instantaneously anyhow.
"for x := 1 to maxworkitemid do..."
Sam, what is the query by project area?
Note that the work item ID's are unique across the entire repository ... not per project area. So if a work item in some project area is number 15347, then that is the only work item in the repository that can have that ID.
I know that, but I'll take any query I can get right now that gives me a reasonably close number. :) I am not looking for an available number to create, just a max number for testing the data. I could even overshoot and be ok, but the more I overshoot, the longer it will take to run the report.
you could query all the workitems in a project, sorted by id, highest to lowest. set the pagesize small, get the first page full and take the first.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/146268/best-way-to-check-for-bad-links-via-the-rest-api
:)