Creating and Updating Topics

You can create and modify topics within your rulebooks.

Create a topic¶

You must send at least the title, category and initial status for your topic:

do:
   - mid = create_topic:
          category: Enhancement
          data:
            description: |
                 Just a short description
          status: New
          title: My topic title

The create_topic op will return the mid (id) of the new topic.

Modify a topic¶

To modify a topic, you need at least the mid of the topic you want to modify.

do:
    - update_topic:
         mid: ${mid}
         data:
            title: 'Changed it just now'

Depending on your context, the mid may be available in the context object. For instance, if your rule is hooked to a topic_modify event:

topic_modify:
    - topic =: "{{ ctx.topic() }}"
    - update_topic:
         mid: ${topic.mid}
         data:
            title: 'Changed it just now'

Change the Topic Status¶

You can promote/demote a topic from one status to another with the change_status op.

The to status can only be one, and is required.

topic_modify:
    - topic =: "{{ ctx.topic() }}"
    - change_status:
        mid: ${topic.mid}
        to: Fixed

The change_status op can also change multiple topics at once and filter by several from statuses.

do:
    - change_status:
        mid: [ '123', '456' ],
        to: Fixed

You can also filter the from status, so that you guarantee only topics that actually are in the from list have their statuses changed to the to status.

do:
    - change_status:
        mid:
            - 123
            - 456
        from:
           - 'To Do'
           - 'In Progress'
        to: Fixed

Permissions¶

The above ops will always use the current user executing the rulebook.

For a pipeline job, it will be the user that created the job.
For an event, the user that triggered the event.
For a webhook call, the user authenticated into Clarive that called the webhook.

If the user does not have permissions to the topic project or the topic category in question, a permissions error will be shown.