YOUTRACK REST API FULL

With a simple rule like the above, attached as workflow to your project, any +1 comment will now be interpreted as a vote and a nice message displayed to the user. If you’re not familiar with workflows, think of it as a way to get YouTrack to pretty much do whatever you want. We can actually solve this using Workflows. But the even better news is that we don’t need to add a feature, and consequently you don’t need to wait for us to ship this feature if you’re also encountering this problem. “Can’t you add a feature to YouTrack to make +1 add a vote?” Workflows save the day…again So how should we fix it? Make the vote button bigger? Place a couple here and there? I asked this question on Twitter a few days ago and one of the more common responses was: In addition, in a world of Like and +1, what tends to happen is that we end up with a lot of comments like this: The problem is, that not everybody seems to see the button. It doesn’t say “Vote” but it’s still pretty apparent There’s a button right at the top, beneath the title. I can assure you that you’ll be impressed.On YouTrack, you can vote for issues. We can completely automate the process of handling new submissions, such as automatically assigning an defect to a person based on the type of issue, create notifications, send emails (because we all need more emails in our lives) and a whole slew of other actions that can be performed with custom workflows.Īnd of course, having the ability to perform pretty much any type of operation with YouTrack, via the API provides us with the power to create custom user interfaces for different departments or users of our organization, removing unnecessary noise where it makes sense, and providing more information for only those that need it. If we combine the ability to provide a custom user interface for submitting new issues, with the potential that the Workflow Editor provides us, the possibilities are endless.

You can try it live here and explore the source code, experiment and adapt it to your own needs. All it is doing is providing a new look and feel for static data generated from YouTrack. What’s awesome about this UI, is that it’s nothing more than a façade over our own instance of YouTrack.

YOUTRACK REST API FULL

It’s an alternative interface written by Alexey Pegov, as a proof of concept, to demonstrate the full potential of the API. Recognize the screen below? Of course you don’t. In fact, we can create a completely new User Interface for listing or displaying issues. Submitting issues isn’t the only thing that can be done using the YouTrack API. Obviously in this case, we have permissions enabled to let anyone submit issues but that can also be restricted by requiring a valid login beforehand. We can now easily embed a form to create issues in any web site. For this example, we’re going to allow access from all sites, although we can limit it to specific domains For that, when logging in as Administrator in YouTrack, under the Adminsitration, REST API, we can specify whether we want external sites to have access to the API ( CORS). To get this to work, we need to enable external access to the API. Enable REST API and Access from external sites. Only remaining thing would be to load the projects on page load:Īlthough for this example we’re using JavaScript, if you prefer to use some other language such as C#, Ruby, Python, know that there are already libraries available. The second function, createIssue which actually creates the issue would be: One obtains a list of projects from our YouTrack server, and the other creates a new issue. The only interesting thing on the page is two JavaScript functions. We’re using Twitter Bootstrap to give it somewhat of a nice design (which coincides now with 90% of the Internet). The page itself is straightforward, being just a form with three elements.

Enable the REST API and Access from external sites.

Embedding a submit issue form on your web site All this is made possible because of the powerful HTTP API it has. And not only that, but you can actually replace the entire UI of YouTrack. In fact, YouTrack is flexible enough that not only can you limit to very few the number of fields required (namely three), but you can also easily create your own user interface to submit defects. The answer is of course, no, it’s not complicated at all. Need being of course, that many QA departments don’t want to spend too much time filling out field after field of information to submit a bug. Customers often ask us whether submitting issues in YouTrack is complicated, in the sense that if it requires many fields to be filled in.

Youtrack rest api