vsts work item create: ability to link related work items

[jdanyow]

Something like this would be super useful for our team:

vsts work item create ...required args... --parent xxxxxxxxxx
vsts work item create ...required args... --related xxxxxxxxxx

cc @adkinn

[leeberg]

This is my top request - I am using VSTS CLI to clone projects from a master template project... but without the ability to set parent / related I am left with tons of "un-parented" tasks and PBIs with no child tasks

Also, I was also hoping this info might show on the "relations" under show work item:

When I use the plain old rest API I am seeing relations info - but nothing is being passed except null from the CLI

[peteg18]

Very important for us as well!

[vbossica]

@jdanyow @leeberg @peteg18 Please have a look at #125 to see if it would fit your needs.

[jdanyow]

@vbossica looks good, much appreciated. Any ETA on a release?

[vbossica]

@jdanyow @tedchamb knows all the details about release ETA (I'm not part of the VSTS team and don't know their release cycle)

[VelinGeorgiev]

Its been 8 months since the pull request is being submitted. @tedchamb, any news on that?

[tedchamb]

@VelinGeorgiev, all I can say is that there is going to be a large round of investment in the cli coming soon. These PRs are on the list.

[VelinGeorgiev]

Thanks for the update @tedchamb! Looking forward for that new update.

[gauravsaralMs]

I am proposing we start with 3 commands
az boards work-item relation add
az boards work-item relation remove
az boards work-item relation-type list

this should solve most of the customer scenarions
also in
az boards work-item show we should be getting all the fields (including relations)

Using az boards work-item relation-type list users can list the types of relations supported in the Org
like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/work%20item%20relation%20types/list?view=azure-devops-rest-5.0

then they can use oppositeEndReferenceName from this command to
az boards work-item relation add
az boards work-item relation remove

which will look something like this
az boards work-item relation add --id 4 --relation System.LinkTypes.Hierarchy-Forward=1,2,3
`az boards work-item relation add --id 4 --relation-type 'Parent' --target-id 1,2,3'

cc: @geverghe @snankani @ishitam8

[geverghe]

FYI - @jdanyow , @leeberg , @peteg18 , @vbossica , @VelinGeorgiev

[jboulter11]

Will this PR include --parent on create or will that come in a follow-up? Excited to see this being worked on! :)

[gauravsaralMs]

Will this PR include --parent on create or will that come in a follow-up? Excited to see this being worked on! :)

at least not as part of the first cut, we will see how much popular this scenario is before implementing that.
Although this is still be achievable in 2 steps, i.e. first create and then link

[gauravsaralMs]

This will be available in next release, planned for something late this week or next week.
Closing this Issue as ability to link work items is added.

In case some other feature request/ enhancement is needed. Please raise a different issue.