Question

I have a number of recurring items that always pop up at regular intervals. How can I create new FogBugz cases using the API on an automatic basis?

Answer 1

• Figure out the url you want to use to create the FogBugz case using the API.
  1. Go to http://yourfogbugz.com/api.asp?cmd=logon&email=foo&password=bar
  2. You will receive a response with a token that looks like this: 361abi3k9g8fffj7j71prf
  3. Using the token from step 2, create a url in your browser that looks like this:

http://yourfogbugz.com/api.asp?cmd=new&token=361abi3k9g8fffj7j71prf&sTitle=sometitle&sPersonAssignedTo=somename

• Remember that in urls, spaces have to be encoded as %20. If you enter the above url into Firefox, it will encode everything for you after you hit return.
• You can use many different arguments in this url. For more arguments, see the xml api docs for the section on editing cases.

• Now that you have the url you want which creates the new case just right, you need to make a small script the windows task scheduler can run. Put the following code into a file called fbapi.vbs.

  Dim o: Set o = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
o.open "POST", "put the url here", False
o.Send
Set o = Nothing
  

• Finally, create the scheduled task to run the following command cscript.exe c:\<path to>\fbapi.vbs

• Here's how to create scheduled tasks on XP. Here's how to create a scheduled task on Vista.