Getting the parent (case) id of a task description

[gu-stahl]

Request Type

Feature Request

Problem Description

The function find_tasks() returns a list of tasks including their identifying id's. I cannot see a way to find what case that task corresponds to (e.g. a parent_id being equal to the id of the case that owns the task).

Steps to Reproduce

1. response = api.find_tasks(query={'status':'inProgress'}, sort=['-createdAt'])
2. The response consists of a list of tasks with the status: inProgress, but there is no link to the cases with these tasks.

Possible Solutions

If the backend can return this information, have the json-response for a task contain the case id (parent_id), e.g.:
{
"_id": "~10128176",
"parent_id": "~23589374", <-----------------------
"_type": "case_task",
"createdAt": 1649142919313,
"createdBy": "user",
"description": "description"
"flag": false,
"group": "default",
"id": "~10128176",
"order": 1,
"owner": "user",
"startDate": 1649146266237,
"status": "InProgress",
"title": "Title",
"updatedAt": 1649142975316,
"updatedBy": "user"
}

Or maybe there is already a solution to this, but I have not been able to find it.

[chriswalkerc]

I was just having the same problem with observables. The UI adds an additional parameter to the equivalent of the "params" structure in "__find_rows". I did a quick bodge to see how it would work & added in exactly what the UI put in:

params = {
"range": attributes.get("range", "all"),
"sort": attributes.get("sort", []),
"nparent": "10"
}

I'm not sure why the value of 10 is used for the nparent, but it did return the parent case under a 'case' structure within the usual JSON response.

[gu-stahl]

I was just having the same problem with observables. The UI adds an additional parameter to the equivalent of the "params" structure in "__find_rows". I did a quick bodge to see how it would work & added in exactly what the UI put in:

params = { "range": attributes.get("range", "all"), "sort": attributes.get("sort", []), "nparent": "10" }

I'm not sure why the value of 10 is used for the nparent, but it did return the parent case under a 'case' structure within the usual JSON response.

That worked perfectly, thanks for the tip! This should really be a default for the find_tasks/observables functions.