RTC: child work item inheriting attributes from parent
I have defined a parent-child relationship between 2 work item types.
I want the child work item to inherit some attributes from the parent when it is created. So, for example, if the parent has attribute X with value Y, the child should have attribute X (I defined attributes with the same names) with value Y. Can this be done via .js scripts (as a calculated value), or is a Java extension required? Has anybody a sample code to share? RTC version is 3.0.1.2
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Ralph Schoon (63.3k●3●36●46)
| answered Jun 25 '12, 9:14 a.m.
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Hi Luca,
as far as I can tell the javascript API does not allow you to traverse links. See my answer on a similar question from you: https://jazz.net/forum/questions/78907/validator-for-work-item-type-in-parent-child-attribute You could do it with an extension, the post above shows resources you should look at. Here a post that shows the part of the API that allows to get related work items: https://jazz.net/forum/questions/30423/changing-state-of-stored-quotrelatedquot-work-items-pr Luca Martinucci selected this answer as the correct answer
Comments I wanted to see if there was any updated information for this subject as of RTC 6.0.4? I have a need to inherit some attribute values from a parent work item. No and it is pretty unlikely that there will ever be a built in functionality. There are no plans, there is no real common requirement.
Ralph Schoon
commented Oct 12 '17, 2:43 a.m.
| edited Oct 12 '17, 2:45 a.m.
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It is possible to create custom extensions. See
For some examples.
This post was from some years ago.
Now, I have done such an automation several times, not only for parent-child, but for several kinds of links.
Anyway, developing a custom Java extension is still the only solution.
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Hi Ralph,
I use the option "Create Child Workitem" to create a child workitem from a Parent workitem. When i do this, some fileds like "Filed Agianst", "Project Area" ..etc value gets copied to Child workitem. Similarly I would like to have few more attributes to be copied to child workitem. Is this possible?
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