Notes on accessing AtTask REST service for Project Status reporting

AtTask is used as our project management software. The REST service for it lives here:

https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/

The documentation is here.

To get info on projects:

https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/project/search?

To get info on tasks:

 https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/task/search? will return task information.

To get all of the fields for a project you can add 'field=*' to the query string.

https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/project/search?fields=*

To just get specific fields pass the field names as comma separated.

https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/project/search?fields=actualCost,actualCompletionDate

To filter put the field name and the value you want:

https://[yourcompanynamehere].attask-ondemand.com/attask/api/project/search?status=CUR

From .net you can use the System.Net.Http.HttpClient object to call the above URLs. You need to tell the HttpClient object that it's cool to get back a JSON response so you need to add a handler to it, something like this:

var proxy = new WebProxy
                {
                    Address = new Uri(proxyUri),
                    Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials
                };

var handler = new HttpClientHandler
                    {
                        PreAuthenticate = true,
                        ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Automatic,
                        UseProxy = true,
                        Proxy = proxy
                    };

var client = new HttpClient(handler) {BaseAddress = new Uri(baseUrl)};

// make it so we accept json as a response
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(url).Result;


Then use the System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer to map the JSON into .Net objects:

var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

var projects = serializer.Deserialize<IList<Project>>(json);

Where your Project object contains all the fields you are expecting from the JSON

public class ProjectDto
{
    public string ID { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string objCode { get; set; }
    public string percentComplete { get; set; }
    public string plannedCompletionDate { get; set; }
    public string plannedStartDate { get; set; }
    public string priority { get; set; }
    public string projectedCompletionDate { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }

}


You can use the above data to make reports based on real time project status: