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Script Based Default Values and User Lists


Robert Carter (42928589) | asked Aug 06 '14, 3:52 p.m.
 I have read this article, IBM: How to Automatically add users as subscribers and I had some ideas.  Is it possible to use Script Based Default Values for this?  I would like to dynamically create this list of default subscribers based on the Project Area or Team Area Member list.

Say I have a database team and an UI team.  When a Work Item is created for the Database team I want to add ALL the members of database team as subscribers to the ticket.  Since the membership can change over time I cannot rely on maintaining a User List default value.  I would like instead to, create a script that grabs the list of members of the Database Team area and make them subscribers.


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Susan Hanson (1.6k2201194) | answered Aug 06 '14, 3:59 p.m.
I don't believe this is available via JavaScript due to the limitations on what APIs/values are accessible in JavaScript.

I think you could write a server-side plugin which, upon creation, look at the team, go load that team, and add each member as a subscriber.  We do something similar but by role (so it subscribes everyone who has a given role at the project area level) to a newly-created work item based on certain criteria.

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