Calling Work Item Template Invocation from Code

and why do you think you can only set those fields?

here is one of my java client code sections that creates a new workitem. this is called from a web service, passing the parameters from another system. You build a map of all the fields and values, and 'save that' with the new workitem.
(the synchrule stuff is due to the internal processing my handler provides).

 		if(!TeamPlatform.isStarted())

  			TeamPlatform.startup();

  		try {

  			IProgressMonitor sPm = new SysoutProgressMonitor();

  			if(login(sPm)!=null)

  			{

	  			// get operations handle to repository

	

	

	  			

	  			IExternalProxy proxy = getExternalProxy(getRepository(),createItem.getProblem(),true, sPm);

	  			IExternalState externalState = InteropFactory.INSTANCE

	  					.createExternalState();

	  			ISyncRule sr = getInteropMgr().findSyncRule(

	  							StringConstants.sfdcworkitem, sPm);

	  			proxy = (IExternalProxy) proxy.getWorkingCopy();

	  			proxy.setSyncRule(sr);

	

	  			Map<String> states = new HashMap<String>();

	  			System.out.println("processing workitem create\n");

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyType, "defect");

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyfiledAgainst, createItem.getProduct());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyProblemNumber, createItem.getProblem());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlySummary, createItem.getSummary());			

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyCreatedBy, StringConstants.UserPrefix +":"+ createItem.getAuthor());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyDescription, createItem.getDescription());

	  			java.sql.Timestamp js = new java.sql.Timestamp(java.lang.System.currentTimeMillis());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CreateOnlyCreationDate, js);

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonLastSynch, js);			

	  			

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonStatus, "Initial");

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonPriority, createItem.getPriority());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonSeverity, createItem.getSeverity());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonCases,CasestoList(createItem.getCases()));

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonComments,CommentstoList(createItem.getComments(),true));

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonAttachments,AttachmentstoList(createItem.getAttachments()));

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonImpact,createItem.getImpact());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonReproduction,createItem.getHowtoreproduce());

	  			states.put(StringConstants.CommonCircumvention,createItem.getCircumvention());

	

	  			// save the updated states

	  			externalState.setState(states);

	  			//interop.setSynchronizationEnabled(sr, true, sPm);

	  			// persistently

	  			getInteropMgr().saveProxyWithState(proxy, externalState, sPm);

	  			

Thanks for the reply.

I don't want to programmatically create just a work item, but several work items via an existing work item template. Right now, those are the only two "variable" fields that can be set when creating from a work item template.

Any idea on how to do this? Thanks.

Gary

sorry, no.. haven't played with templates at all.