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[jesuslinares]

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I am encountering some issues when trying to retrieve the event history of the issues added to projects (v2). Example:

[user] moved this from In progress to Pending review in [project] [3 weeks ago]

Specifically, I am using the timelineItems objects, but it seems that only "labeled" events are being displayed. I have already enabled the project-event-details-preview as mentioned in the documentation (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/schema-previews#project-event-details-preview). Also, I checked that I have enough permissions.

However, I am unable to access the desired event history. Could you please assist me in understanding how to retrieve the complete event history for the issues in question?

This is the query:

query myquery($project_id: ID!, $cursor: String) {
  node(id: $project_id) {
    ... on ProjectV2 {
      items(first: 100, after: $cursor) {
        ...
        nodes {
          ...
          content {
            ... on Issue {
              ...
              timelineItems(first: 100) {
                nodes {
                  __typename
                  ... on AddedToProjectEvent {
                    actor { login }
                    projectColumnName
                  }
                  ... on MovedColumnsInProjectEvent {
                    actor { login }
                    createdAt
                    project { name }
                    databaseId
                    previousProjectColumnName
                    projectColumnName
                  }
                  ... on LabeledEvent {
                    actor { login }
                    label { name } 
                  }
                  ... on UnlabeledEvent {
                    actor { login }
                    label { name } 
                  }
                }
              }
...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[ghostinhershell]

Hey @jesuslinares, thanks so much for reaching out and welcome to the community! I've shared this with our internal teams for feedback and should have feedback for you soon. Thanks again!

[gmjuhasz]

+1 on this, experiencing the same issue.

[rmh54]

Same here - still an issue

[qkdreyer]

@ghostinhershell any updates ?

[critch]

I found an odd situation.

We converted from a classic project board to a v2 board. Issues that had been on a classic board show events like moved. But, then any issues created on only the V2 board do not show these events.

So if I try to mirror the moves on the now close classic board still show up with a projectV2 graphql query.

[mlisivka]

@ghostinhershell Any updates on this? This is critical for me

[naefp]

I came here because I'm trying to migrate our automation from classic projects to v2 (and it looks like I have 1 month left to do it...)

we are using timeline events as well and I'm trying to reverse engineer what Github UI does:

• github performs an internal query and receives the events on the property frontTimeline which is not available via the public API
• the totalcount on frontTimeline equals to totalcount on timelineItems (13 in my case), but Github UI does not load timelineItems at all
• i can find these events with type ProjectV2ItemStatusChangedEvent, which i cannot find in any documentation, qraphql explorer or somewhere else than in the github internal results
• when i get an issue via the api with timelineItems my totalcount is lower than expected (6 in my case) and the status changed events are missing

For me it's unfortunate that I can't get all the information via the API for V2 projects, but the classic projects go down in a month... ?

[naefp]

btw. it seems like the github iOS app is affected by this as well. cant see any projectv2 events in the issue timeline, but I only see label or milestone events..

[ericboehs]

I imagine once the iOS app starts listing these events, a new project type will be dropped in the GraphQL schema changelog.

I'm wanting to create a sprint report and knowing when an issue was added to a Sprint would be great.