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RTC: child work item inheriting attributes from parent


Luca Martinucci (1.0k397112) | asked Jun 22 '12, 10:20 a.m.
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 (63.5k33646) | 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
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Ralph Schoon commented Sep 25 '12, 6:25 a.m.
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Bob 3 commented Oct 12 '17, 12:41 a.m. | edited Oct 15 '17, 1:33 p.m.

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.


Ralph Schoon commented Oct 12 '17, 2:42 a.m.
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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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Luca Martinucci commented Oct 16 '17, 5:23 a.m.

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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Deepa M S (711) | answered Sep 06 '22, 6:27 a.m.

 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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