Create iterations and sub iterations under timeline section of RTC prgramatically

Yatin Chaudhari (11●2) | asked Oct 08 '18, 8:22 a.m.

Can anybody help me to create iterations under timeline using RTC JAVA API.

I want to handle it dynamically by reading mapping through XML

where it would maintain mapping for each iteration like below

<Workitems>

<Workitem>

<UId>12345</UId>

<Id>1</Id>

<Name>Testing iteration creation 10-09-2018</Name>

<StartDate>2018-09-10 10:30:00</StartDate>

<EndDate>2018-09-20 19:15:00</EndDate>

<Identifier>parent</Identifier>

<Level>timeline</Level>

<ChildWorkitems>

<Child level="parent">

<ChildName>Child_1</ChildName>

<ChildStartDate>2018-09-11 10:40:00</ChildStartDate>

<ChildEndDate>2018-09-15 15:40:00</ChildEndDate>

<Identifier>child1</Identifier>

<Level>parent</Level>

</Child>

<Child level="child1">

<ChildName>Child_2</ChildName>

<ChildStartDate>2018-09-16 12:00:00</ChildStartDate>

<ChildEndDate>2018-09-20 19:05:00</ChildEndDate>

<Identifier>child2</Identifier>

<Level>child1</Level>

</Child>

</ChildWorkitems>

</Workitem>

<Workitem>

<UId>12345</UId>

<Id>1</Id>

<Name>Testing iteration creation 21-09-2018</Name>

<StartDate>2018-09-21 10:30:00</StartDate>

<EndDate>2018-09-30 19:15:00</EndDate>

<Identifier>parent</Identifier>

<Level>timeline</Level>

<ChildWorkitems>

<Child level="parent">

<ChildName>Child_1</ChildName>

<ChildStartDate>2018-09-23 10:40:00</ChildStartDate>

<ChildEndDate>2018-09-27 18:40:00</ChildEndDate>

<Identifier>child1</Identifier>

<Level>parent</Level>

</Child>

<Child level="child1">

<ChildName>Child_2</ChildName>

<ChildStartDate>2018-09-28 12:00:00</ChildStartDate>

<ChildEndDate>2018-09-30 19:05:00</ChildEndDate>

<Identifier>child2</Identifier>

<Level>child1</Level>

</Child>

</ChildWorkitems>

</Workitem>

</Workitems>

So out of this I would want to get iteration hierarchy like below

---> Development Line(timeline level)

---> Iteration 1(parent level)

--->Child Iteration 1.1 (child1 level)

--->Child Iteration 1.1.1

---> Iteration 2(parent level)

--->Child Iteration 2.1 (child1 level)

--->Child Iteration 2.1.1

Thanks.

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Karthik Krishnan (884●6●119●163) | answered Oct 08 '18, 9:00 a.m.

Here is the piece of code to create categories. Rest I hope you can build up according to your business needs. Most likely you need to have recursion for creating child categories to 'n' levels

Note: The below code to give you an idea of using the API.

private void createCategories(IProjectArea pa,
        String[] categoriesFromConfigfile, ITeamRepository repo,
        IProgressMonitor monitor) throws TeamRepositoryException {
    String rtcCategoryName = "";                
    for (int i = 0; i <= categoriesFromConfigfile.length - 1; i++) {          
        List<String> splitsubCategory = new ArrayList<String>();
        splitsubCategory.add(categoriesFromConfigfile[i]);
        
        IWorkItemClient workItemClient = (IWorkItemClient) repo
                .getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);
        ICategoryHandle subCategoryHandle =workItemClient.findCategoryByNamePath(pa, splitsubCategory,monitor);
        
        rtcCategoryName = categoriesFromConfigfile[i];
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("/");
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(rtcCategoryName);
        if (matcher.find()) {
            // Creation of Subcategories
            
            if(splitsubCategory.size() > 1)
                splitsubCategory.remove(1);
                //System.out.println(iCategoryHandle.getItemId());
                createSubCategory(subCategoryHandle,splitsubCategory.get(1), repo, monitor);
        } else {
            createCategory(pa, rtcCategoryName, repo, monitor);
        }
    }
}
public static ICategory createCategory(IProjectArea iProjectArea,
        String categoryName, ITeamRepository repo, IProgressMonitor monitor)
        throws TeamRepositoryException {
    IWorkItemClient workItemClient = (IWorkItemClient) repo
            .getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);
    ICategory category = workItemClient.createCategory(iProjectArea,
            categoryName, monitor);
    return workItemClient.saveCategory(category, monitor);
}
public static ICategory createSubCategory(ICategoryHandle parentCategory,
        String categoryName, ITeamRepository repo, IProgressMonitor monitor)
        throws TeamRepositoryException {
    IWorkItemClient workItemClient = (IWorkItemClient) repo
            .getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);
    ICategory category = workItemClient.createSubcategory(parentCategory,
            categoryName, monitor);
    return workItemClient.saveCategory(category, monitor);
}

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Yatin Chaudhari commented Oct 09 '18, 12:45 a.m.

Hi Karthik,

This is not useful for the above scenario.

Karthik Krishnan commented Oct 09 '18, 8:26 a.m.

Oops. My bad! i got confused with categories. The code I gave is for category creations

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