Work Items - Create

Reference

Service:: Work Item Tracking

API Version:: 5.0

Creates a single work item.

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/workitems/${type}?api-version=5.0

With optional parameters:

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/workitems/${type}?validateOnly={validateOnly}&bypassRules={bypassRules}&suppressNotifications={suppressNotifications}&api-version=5.0

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
type	path	True	string	The work item type of the work item to create
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '5.0' to use this version of the api.
bypassRules	query		boolean	Do not enforce the work item type rules on this update
suppressNotifications	query		boolean	Do not fire any notifications for this change
validateOnly	query		boolean	Indicate if you only want to validate the changes without saving the work item

Request Body

Media Types: "application/json-patch+json"

Name	Type	Description
from	string	The path to copy from for the Move/Copy operation.
op	Operation	The patch operation
path	string	The path for the operation
value	object	The value for the operation. This is either a primitive or a JToken.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	WorkItem	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 work item

Sample Request

HTTP

POST https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/{project}/_apis/wit/workitems/${type}?api-version=5.0

[
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/System.Title",
    "from": null,
    "value": "Sample task"
  }
]

Sample Response

Status code:: 200

{
  "id": 131489,
  "rev": 1,
  "fields": {
    "System.AreaPath": "CustomProcessPrj",
    "System.TeamProject": "CustomProcessPrj",
    "System.IterationPath": "CustomProcessPrj",
    "System.WorkItemType": "Task",
    "System.State": "New",
    "System.Reason": "New",
    "System.CreatedDate": "2017-10-06T01:04:51.57Z",
    "System.CreatedBy": {
      "displayName": "Jamal Hartnett",
      "url": "https://vssps.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/Identities/d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "_links": {
        "avatar": {
          "href": "https://dev.azure.com/mseng/_apis/GraphProfile/MemberAvatars/aad.YTkzODFkODYtNTYxYS03ZDdiLWJjM2QtZDUzMjllMjM5OTAz"
        }
      },
      "id": "d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "uniqueName": "fabrikamfiber4@hotmail.com",
      "imageUrl": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_api/_common/identityImage?id=d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "descriptor": "aad.YTkzODFkODYtNTYxYS03ZDdiLWJjM2QtZDUzMjllMjM5OTAz"
    },
    "System.ChangedDate": "2017-10-06T01:04:51.57Z",
    "System.ChangedBy": {
      "displayName": "Jamal Hartnett",
      "url": "https://vssps.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/Identities/d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "_links": {
        "avatar": {
          "href": "https://dev.azure.com/mseng/_apis/GraphProfile/MemberAvatars/aad.YTkzODFkODYtNTYxYS03ZDdiLWJjM2QtZDUzMjllMjM5OTAz"
        }
      },
      "id": "d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "uniqueName": "fabrikamfiber4@hotmail.com",
      "imageUrl": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_api/_common/identityImage?id=d291b0c4-a05c-4ea6-8df1-4b41d5f39eff",
      "descriptor": "aad.YTkzODFkODYtNTYxYS03ZDdiLWJjM2QtZDUzMjllMjM5OTAz"
    },
    "System.Title": "Sample task",
    "Microsoft.VSTS.Common.StateChangeDate": "2017-10-06T01:04:51.57Z",
    "Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority": 2
  },
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/workItems/131489"
    },
    "workItemUpdates": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/workItems/131489/updates"
    },
    "workItemRevisions": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/workItems/131489/revisions"
    },
    "workItemHistory": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/workItems/131489/history"
    },
    "html": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/web/wi.aspx?pcguid=20cda608-32f0-4e6e-9b7c-8def7b38d15a&id=131489"
    },
    "workItemType": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/aaee31d9-14cf-48b9-a92b-3f1446c13f80/_apis/wit/workItemTypes/Task"
    },
    "fields": {
      "href": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/fields"
    }
  },
  "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/wit/workItems/131489"
}

Definitions

Name	Description
JsonPatchDocument	The JSON model for JSON Patch Operations
Operation	The patch operation
ReferenceLinks	The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.
WorkItem	Describes a work item.
WorkItemRelation

JsonPatchDocument

The JSON model for JSON Patch Operations

Name	Type	Description
from	string	The path to copy from for the Move/Copy operation.
op	Operation	The patch operation
path	string	The path for the operation
value	object	The value for the operation. This is either a primitive or a JToken.

Operation

The patch operation

Name	Type	Description
add	string
copy	string
move	string
remove	string
replace	string
test	string

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.

WorkItem

Describes a work item.

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	Link references to related REST resources.
fields	object	Map of field and values for the work item.
id	integer	The work item ID.
relations	WorkItemRelation[]	Relations of the work item.
rev	integer	Revision number of the work item.
url	string

WorkItemRelation

Name	Type	Description
attributes	object	Collection of link attributes.
rel	string	Relation type.
url	string	Link url.