WorkItem

The WorkItem type represents a work item and the attributes that are set for it. This type is used as a parameter for the GetWorkItem, CreateWorkItem, UpdateItem, UpdateWorkItem methods. It is used as a member of the Item and WorkItem types. The parameters for the ItemAttribute method are:

Parameter	Datatype	Description
id	int	The Id associated with the work item.
parentId	int	The Id associated with the parent of the work item.
backlogId	string	If the work item is assigned to a backlog, this parameter is the Id associated with the backlog.
name	string	The name given to the work item.
externalId	string	The Id of the work item in another system, such as SBM.
itemType	string	The system name of the type of the work item, as shown in the table below.
attributes	ItemAttribute[]	An array of key/value pairs representing the attribute set on the work item.

System names for work item types are shown in the following table:

Item type	System name
Defect	Agile_Defect
Epic	Agile_Epic
Story	PES-User-Story
Task	Agile_Task