How to automatically assign categories (filed_against attribute) to work item ?

Here it is.

This is a "Validator" script.
You need to assign it to the attribute you want the retrieve the UUID and you will get the info in the "Error Log" view.

Tell me if that helped :)
And good luck

Script :

dojo.provide("Validator.Util");

dojo.require("com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.WorkItemAttributes");

(function() {

    dojo.declare("Validator.Util", null, {

        validate: function(attribute, workItem, configuration) {
            console.log("ATTRIBUTE : " + attribute);
            var value = workItem.getValue(attribute);
            console.log("VALUE : " + value);
            return Status.OK_STATUS;
        }
    });
})();

As far as I can tell, there is no such automation available. You can create an attribute customization that sets a general default category that you can choose. But there is no automated way that ties the work items category to the owner.

There are capabilities in Java Script based customizations, however, they are very limited and I think you would have to hard code a mapping of user ID's to the category ID's if you want to use that.

The other way I can think of is a follow up action that could do this task. See https://jazz.net/library/article/1000 on how to get started.


 

Thank you for your answer Ralph.

As the teams are only made of 4 or 5 people, I decided to write a Script based customization.

The script was quite easy to write and it seems that the other solution you were offering is only suitable for RTC 4.0 (I am using RTC 3.0.1.1)

Thank you

Hi Jean-Michel,

Could you please provide with an extract of your code ?

Basically what I did :
- I mapped each user with his UUID (I retrieved this UUID with a small script I can send you if you want)
- I mapped each user with his Category's UUID (retrieved the same way as previously) and then I set the "Filed against" attribute with this UUID.

This was not very hard in my case because there aren't a lot of users so the mapping was easy.

You might want to do something like this :

ojo.provide("SED.ValueProvider.Filed_Against");
dojo.require("com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.WorkItemAttributes");


(function() {
    dojo.declare("SED.ValueProvider.Filed_Against", null, {

        getValue: function(attribute, workItem, configuration) {
       
            var WorkItemAttributes = com.ibm.team.workitem.api.common.WorkItemAttributes;
            var userUUID = workItem.getValue(WorkItemAttributes.CREATOR);
           
            var Gilles_TrautmannUUID = "_FfmcsOsbEeGD1r7xkMLeGw"; // Retrieved via another script

           var ParisUUID = "_fgW3gCjiEeKOcJXMBz1GaA";
           var LondonUUID = "_61ClUh9NEeKJDq__QfUm3A";
           switch (userUUID)
            {
                case Gilles_TrautmannUUID:
                    //console.log("Gilles");
                    return LondonUUID;
                case else:
                    return ParisUUID;
            }
        }
    });
})();

The UUID thing was mandatory (I assume in RTC 3.0.1.1) but I think that now you can directly retrieve the value (i.e the "displayed" value, in my case Gilles Trautmann instead of _FfmcsOsbEeGD1r7xkMLeGw).

However this needs to be confirmed

Hope this helps

It worked ! Thanks for the tip, it is exactly what I wanted to know.

 @Jean-Michel Athane, how did you get the UUID of "Filed Against" values?