How can I use REST API to find work items that do not have a parent?
I'm trying to use REST to find "orphaned" task work items - that is tasks that do not have a parent story or defect. There are two parts to the problem.
1) I tried adding a filter query on parent/id but it's not queryable. I also just tried "parent" but get "unsupported type name" error. Is there some other way that I can filter based on parent?
One answer
I don't think you can test empty/null/nonexistence when using the REST API.
If you do not have to use the REST API, a simple work item query should suffice. Just set the condition to (Parent do not exist) & (Type is Task). If you need to do some post-processing using some kind of script, you can download the result set as a CSV file.
If you do not have to use the REST API, a simple work item query should suffice. Just set the condition to (Parent do not exist) & (Type is Task). If you need to do some post-processing using some kind of script, you can download the result set as a CSV file.