Set Manager of New Change with API

A minor feature has been added to the REST API for changes. This API now allows the manager of the change to be set when a new change is created. In the past, the API user would always become the manager of the change, which mimics the behavior of the user interface when a change manager opens a new change.

By making it possible to select a different manager for a new change, the API now provides some extra flexibility that developers will surely appreciate. Here’s an example of a CURL command for creating a new change for a manager whose person record in 4me has the ID 558:

curl -u “api-token:x” -X POST -H “X-4me-Account: wna-it” -d ‘{“subject”:”Server Upgrade”, “source”:”API” “category”:”standard”, “change_type”:”infrastructure_change”, “justification”:”correction”, “service”:”17230″, “template_id”:”20362″, “start_at”:”2018-10-06T03:00:00Z”, “manager”:”558″}’ “https://api.4me.com/v1/changes”

If a manager is not specified, the manager of the new change will still automatically be set to the API user.