Comments and Label retrieval using Stories API

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Dear experts, The below clarification is inline with the old request https://community.mendix.com/link/questions/6376. Can you please provide some insights regarding the feasibility of retrieving comments and label from the stories API. I am unable to find such API in the documentation. In case mendix doesn’t expose such API, what is the best practice to maintain such information in the application ? Our idea is to create an interface for stories and feedback from the application itself instead of going through developer portal ? Thank you,  Regards, Chengaiah
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Hi,

I did some work on a project a while ago where we needed to extract this information. Unfortunately, I could find no way to retrieve comments. 

There is a way to retrieve labels, it’s just not pretty, and not automated, so would only be appropriate for a one-time upload as you migrated from Sprintr to a new system. With that in mind… 

Go to your Stories overview, and go to export a sprint

Follow the given steps, and download your CSV. It;s structured per ticket ID, and each ticket has a column for Labels

They’re seperated by a semicolon, and don’t include the colour or anything like that. But from this, you can create a microflow that

  • Stages this data
  • Loops through each row
  • Per ticket ID, find the ID that you have already (or import from the API)
  • Check which labels in the semicolon-seperated field exist, and don’t exist
  • For those that don’t exist, create new, and associate
  • For those that do exist, retrieve and associate

 

Like I said, not very pretty, and not automated. But it is achievable, and I’ve got it working in the past. Hope this is of use.

 

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The only information about the story in the API is:

        StoryID (Long)

        ParentSprintID (Long)

        Name (String)

        Description (String)

        Status (String)

        StoryType (String)

        Points (String)

        HasTasks (Boolean)

        Deleted (Boolean)

        CreationDate (DateTime)

        FinishDate (DateTime)

So you have no label/comments.

 

You can create your own app and push them to sprintr with the API.

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