/entries/search POST

Beta – Removed/Redirected

Due to many understandable complaints, we’re changing this to HTTP GET, and redirecting the request to /reports/search. GET requests will be redirected, POST requests will be ignored, and eventually this method will be removed.

When requesting a set of entries from Tempo via search, you must provide a Context XML document. This is basically a set of parameters telling Tempo which entries you want. It allows you to specify which users to look at, projects, tags, and the date range. Here’s a full example of the options:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<context>
  <interval>last7days</interval>
  <start-date>2008-01-01</start-date>
  <end-date>2008-06-01</end-date>
  <project-ids type="array">
    <project-id type="integer">1024</project-id>
    <project-id type="integer">2048</project-id>
    <project-id type="integer">8192</project-id>
  </project-ids>
  <user-ids type="array">
    <user-id type="integer">1024</user-id>
    <user-id type="integer">2048</user-id>
  </user-ids>
  <tags type="array">
    <tag>tempo</tag>
    <tag>support</tag>
  </tags>
  <exclude-tags type="array">
    <exclude-tag>discovery</exclude-tag>
    <exclude-tag>internal</exclude-tag>
  </exclude-tags>
</context>

Note: It’s important that you specify the attribute type="array" for the following grouped attributes:
user-ids, project-ids, tags and exclude-tags.

Here’s an example of how you’d execute the search using curl, assuming you saved your XML in a file called ‘context.xml’:

curl -k -X POST -T context.xml -H 'Content-Type:application/xml' \
  -H 'Accept:application/xml' --user login:password \
  https://hotdogzllc.keeptempo.com/entries/search