Temp Queries - Create

Reference

Service:: Work Item Tracking

API Version:: 7.1-preview.1

Creates a temporary query

Learn more about Work Item Query Language (WIQL) syntax here.

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/tempqueries?api-version=7.1-preview.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
project	path	True	string	Project ID or project name
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '7.1-preview.1' to use this version of the api.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	Link references to related REST resources.
url	string
wiql	string	The WIQL text of the temporary query

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	TemporaryQueryResponseModel	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.work_write	Grants the ability to read, create, and update work items and queries, update board metadata, read area and iterations paths other work item tracking related metadata, execute queries, and to receive notifications about work item events via service hooks.

Examples

Create a temporary query

Sample Request

HTTP

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/tempqueries?api-version=7.1-preview.1

{
  "wiql": "Select [System.Id], [System.Title], [System.State] From WorkItems Where [System.WorkItemType] = 'Bug' order by [Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority] asc, [System.CreatedDate] desc"
}

Sample Response

Status code:: 200

x-VSS-SenderDeploymentId: 2db76d77-1768-4e9f-8fb8-84255eaacced
persistent-Auth: true
lfs-Authenticate: NTLM

Response Body

{
  "id": "ac2ed29e-745d-4272-862d-53a2b58e528f"
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ReferenceLinks	The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.
TemporaryQueryRequestModel	Describes a request to create a temporary query
TemporaryQueryResponseModel	The result of a temporary query creation.

ReferenceLinks

The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.

Name	Type	Description
links	object	The readonly view of the links. Because Reference links are readonly, we only want to expose them as read only.

TemporaryQueryRequestModel

Describes a request to create a temporary query

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	Link references to related REST resources.
url	string
wiql	string	The WIQL text of the temporary query

TemporaryQueryResponseModel

The result of a temporary query creation.

Name	Type	Description
id	string	The id of the temporary query item.

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