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Scripted Value Provider to limit Category-typed attributes in RTC


June Boston (1942438) | asked Apr 10 '18, 6:50 p.m.

Hello,
We need to configure a value set provider that limits the content of the Categories; we will use this on both our Filed Against attribute as well as several other Category-based attributes.  We're pulling the info from a REST call to RTC.  While I can configure an HTTP Value Set Provider to return a set of results, you cannot use an HTTP Value Set Provider with a Category-based attribute (it doesn't appear as an option in the dropdown on the config).  You also cannot use Dependent Enumerations with them.  I have written a script to try and do it as you can select a script-based value set for Filed Against and other Category attributes.  I do not know if this will actually work as I do not know what value to return; would it be the name, id, itemId, or some other value that should come back?

dojo.provide("com.zions.valuesetprovider.categoryfilteralpha");
dojo.require("com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.connectors.HttpConnectorParameters");

(function() { dojo.declare("com.zions.valuesetprovider.categoryfilteralpha", null, { getValueSet: function(attributeId, workItem, context){ console.log("Going to do the parameters now"); var params= new com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.connectors.HttpConnectorParameters(); params.url= "https://clm.cs.zionsbank.com/ccm/rpt/repository/workitem?fields=workitem/category[projectArea/itemId=_TofgQPfREeOpj9QcDboLoA]/*"; params.xpath= "//workitem/category"; params.columnXpaths= ["./id"]; params.columnIds= ["id"]; params.ignoreInvalidCertificates=true; params.useOAuth=true;

        var connector= context.getDataConnector("HttpConnector");
        var values= connector.get(params);
        console.log("length of returned values: " + values.length);
        /* none of my console logs ever show up for this script */
        var result= [];
        while(values.hasNext()){
            var entry= values.next();
            var getPushed= entry.getById("id");
            result.push(getPushed);
        }
        return result;
    }
});

})();


I have enabled debugging but the console isn't showing any feedback from my script, hard to tell if it's taking well.  I could easily change the params.columnXpaths to have this return any of the values in the XML result.
Link to see XML REST results in your own system:
https://<clm uri here>/ccm/rpt/repository/workitem?fields=workitem/category[projectArea/itemId=<project id here>]/*

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Donald Nong (14.5k414) | answered Apr 11 '18, 3:30 a.m.

The said value set provider is executed on the server side, therefore the logging is in the ccm.log file, but not the browser console.


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Ralph Schoon (63.1k33645) | answered Apr 11 '18, 2:09 a.m.
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June,

the JavaScript API is fairly limited. If you look into https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/AttributeCustomization you will realize that support for attribute types is pretty much limited to simple types like strings and single value enumerations.

I tried to summarize what I found here https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/rtc-process-customization-what-you-can-and-cannot-do/

If the HTTP filtered value set does not work the only  available option is Java. See https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/?s=attribute+customization for examples.

Debugging, you can try logging in the script if you can not debug it, see https://jazz.net/library/article/1093 last lab for hints around debugging and logging.

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