Assigning Fogbugz cases programmatically

Question

I want to write an application that assigns Fogbugz cases programmatically, how would I accomplish this? Is it possible to achieve this given any of the following scenarios:

• The user enters text in my application's input field and the Fogbugz report is opened in the browser where the "note" field is populated with the text from the user input

• The fogbugz report is assigned to the specified user in the application without the browser even being opened i.e. the report is stored directly in the DB.

I'm planning to add default values to the other fields as well so I would assume the process would be the same for adding text to the "note" field.

Answer 1

You can do this with the Fogbugz API. See the heading "Editing Cases" for the specifics on how to edit a case (which includes creating a new one). It's a little complicated (or perhaps just oddly designed) but, as I remember, you basically have to call cmd=new for an existing case with a new note and it will recognise and update the existing case with the new note.

This is possible both with a regular form posted to your Fogbugz installation and some server side code that calls the API.