HTTP: Update task's status

[TDArlt]

Hi there,

I'm currently integrating ftrack into some existing processes on our side.

One step is that a client can use a web-interface from us where she/he may set some things approved/unapproved. I'd like to get a direct feedback of this one to an internally referenced task in ftrack.

So, there is a update call that looks like that:

{
  action: update
  entity_type: Task
  entity_key: [ #ID OF THE TASK# ]
  entity_data:
  {
    status: 
    {
      __entity_type__: Status
      id: #ID OF THE STATUS I LIKE TO SET#
    }
  }
}

I get the response "Cannot set relationship to string value." (value error).

Updating other things (like name, etc.) works (as I set the string directly), but it won't let me update the status.

So, what am I doing wrong here?

 

Thanks in advance!
Chris

[Lucas Correia]

The Python API Client often uses relationships (e.g. status) to update entities, but when using the raw API backend or the JS API client I recommend that you instead the relationship key attributes instead. In this case, that would be `status_id`.

A more complete example of a request body would be:

[
  {
    "action": "update",
    "entity_type": "Task",
    "entity_key": [
      "12bd29be-72b0-11e7-96a7-0a580ae40a16"
    ],
    "entity_data": {
      "status_id": "44dd9fb2-4164-11df-9218-0019bb4983d8",
      "__entity_type__": "Task"
    }
  }
]

Regards,
Lucas

[TDArlt]

Thanks, Lucas!

It seems like I did not try this, although it totally makes sense - and works perfectly.