Question

I have two FogBugz accounts: One at work (which runs version 7) and one for testing with FogBugz On Demand (which runs version 8).

When I call the API to retrieve a list of projects (for purposes of retrieving the group names/ids) I observe that version 7 returns the <ixGroups>, <sGroups> tags within its project results, and that version 8 does not.

The FogBugz version 8 machine appears to have projects and groups associated together.

Has something changed in the version 8 API which causes it not to return the <ixGroups>, <sGroups> tags?

Answer 1

FogBugz went through a permissions overhaul as part of FogBugz 8, and as a result, the idea of groups as "things comprised of multiple projects" died. Instead, groups now refer to user groups...as in "things comprised of people".

Here's a blog post we published that explains the rationale behind this change as well as how "groups" now work in FogBugz 8.