Assign a task to a user

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/operations-manager/tasks/taskId/assign \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -u "<username>:<password>" \
     -d '{}'

{
  "message": "Successfully created the requested item",
  "data": {
    "_id": "string",
    "location": "Adapter",
    "view": "/workflow_engine/task/ViewData",
    "status": "incomplete",
    "app": "WorkFlowEngine",
    "name": "ViewData",
    "variables": {
      "incoming": {},
      "outgoing": {},
      "decorators": [
        {
          "pointer": "string"
        }
      ]
    },
    "last_updated": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "encodingVersion": 1,
    "job": {
      "_id": "string",
      "task": "e28f",
      "name": "Cisco IOS upgrade",
      "description": "View Task Data",
      "ancestors": [
        "string"
      ]
    },
    "incomingRefs": [
      "string"
    ],
    "mockId": "string",
    "groups": [
      {
        "_id": "string",
        "provenance": "Local AAA",
        "name": "admin",
        "description": "string",
        "memberOf": [
          {
            "groupId": "string",
            "aaaManaged": true
          }
        ],
        "assignedRoles": [
          {
            "roleId": "66ec91e12b18975149d9e0d9"
          }
        ],
        "inactive": true,
        "_meta": {
          "created": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "updated": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "migrationVersion": 1
        }
      }
    ],
    "metrics": {
      "start_time": [
        "2025-03-11T19:03:31.515Z"
      ],
      "claim_time": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
      "end_time": 1740438512495,
      "server_id": "9349c650f70d50e4fe89c95327b7d4d9e6b5228ac83fe4fae120045b37b67860",
      "run_time": 5,
      "user": {
        "_id": "string",
        "provenance": "Local AAA",
        "username": "admin@pronghorn",
        "firstname": "admin",
        "memberOf": [
          {
            "groupId": "string",
            "aaaManaged": true
          }
        ],
        "assignedRoles": [
          {
            "roleId": "66ec91e12b18975149d9e0d9"
          }
        ],
        "inactive": true,
        "lastLogin": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "_meta": {
          "created": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "updated": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "migrationVersion": 1
        },
        "email": "admin@itential.com"
      },
      "owner": {
        "_id": "string",
        "provenance": "Local AAA",
        "username": "admin@pronghorn",
        "firstname": "admin",
        "memberOf": [
          {
            "groupId": "string",
            "aaaManaged": true
          }
        ],
        "assignedRoles": [
          {
            "roleId": "66ec91e12b18975149d9e0d9"
          }
        ],
        "inactive": true,
        "lastLogin": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
        "_meta": {
          "created": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "updated": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
          "migrationVersion": 1
        },
        "email": "admin@itential.com"
      }
    }
  },
  "metadata": {}
}

Assigns a Task to a user.

Authentication

AuthorizationBasic

Basic authentication of the form Basic <base64(username:password)>.

Path parameters

taskIdstringRequiredformat: "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}(-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}){3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$"

The id of the Task iteration to be assigned.

Request

request body

userIdstringOptionalformat: "^[0-9a-f]{24}$"

A string which is formatted like an ObjectId, Distinct from an actual ObjectId.

Response

The result of the assign operation.

messagestring

A human-readable message summarizing the result of the operation

dataobject

Any successfully retrieved information related to the request.

metadatamap from strings to any

Any structured, wordy or machine-readable information related to the result of the operation. For success responses, this may contain information like pagination values from a search operation.

Errors

500

Internal Server Error