Programatically created a workItem in Azure devops but can't see it in the list-CodePudding

This is my code:

var personalAccessToken = "...";
var orgUrl = new Uri("https://dev.azure.com/my-org");
var teamProjectName = "myproj";

VssHttpMessageHandler.DefaultWebProxy = new WebProxy("localhost:18080");

VssConnection connection = new VssConnection(orgUrl, new VssBasicCredential(string.Empty, personalAccessToken));


// Create instance of WorkItemTrackingHttpClient using VssConnection
WorkItemTrackingHttpClient witClient = connection.GetClient<WorkItemTrackingHttpClient>();

try
{
    JsonPatchDocument patchDocument = new JsonPatchDocument();

    //add fields and their values to your patch document
    patchDocument.Add(
        new JsonPatchOperation()
        {
            Operation = Operation.Add,
            Path = "/fields/System.Title",
            Value = "Test WorkItem"
        }
    );

    patchDocument.Add(
        new JsonPatchOperation()
        {
            Operation = Operation.Add,
            Path = "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps",
            Value = ""
        }
    );

    patchDocument.Add(
        new JsonPatchOperation()
        {
            Operation = Operation.Add,
            Path = "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority",
            Value = "1"
        }
    );

    patchDocument.Add(
        new JsonPatchOperation()
        {
            Operation = Operation.Add,
            Path = "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Severity",
            Value = "2 - High"
        }
    );

    patchDocument.Add(
        new JsonPatchOperation()
        {
            Operation = Operation.Add,
            Path = "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps",
            Value = "Test Repro Steps"
        }
    );

    

    WorkItem result = witClient.CreateWorkItemAsync(patchDocument, teamProjectName, "Bug").Result;

    Console.WriteLine("Bug Successfully Created: Bug #{0}", result.Id);
}
catch (AggregateException ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Error creating bug: {0}", ex.InnerException.Message);
}

It creates successfully (and running the code again gives an error about the item already existing with that name).

However when I go into azure devops in the browser, I cannot find any trace of the work item I created anywhere.

Any idea why?

CodePudding user response：

Tried your code, based on my test, actually the work item is not created because you try to update the field with reference name'Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps' multiple times.

I get the following error message when debugging :

"Error creating bug: VS403691: Update to work item -1 had two or more updates for field with reference name 'Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps'. A field cannot be updated more than once in the same update."

Once I removed one of the patchDocument, the work item can be created successfully and I can see it in Azure DevOps work item list.

        patchDocument.Add(
            new JsonPatchOperation()
            {
                Operation = Operation.Add,
                Path = "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps",
                Value = ""
            }
        );

In case you posted the wrong demo code, then please check your work item list area path and iteration path settings. If the work item query/list is based on a specific area path or iteration path which the new created work item is not included in, then you cannot see the new work item.

UPDATE:

We can get the list of work item fields used in a work item type by calling