Create queries across projects in Azure DevOps - azure

Question

I'm trying to create queries across several projects. I've got 7 or 8 queries in total and a dozen or so projects so thought that having some sort of script may make it easier.
I've come up with this (basically copy and paste from somewhere else admittedly) but I have no idea where/how to run it, and whether I've even got everything. I'm assuming that I haven't because I don't have the PAT token but I'm really not sure.
I'm completely out of my comfort zone with this but if I get one right then I'm hoping the rest will be easy because I'm just amending the query. Could anyone offer a bit of help? Should I be using Visual Studio Code or something else to run this? Do I just drop this code in or am I missing something key??
POST https://dev.azure.com/MattR778/ProjectA/_apis/wit/queries/{query}?api-version=5.0
{ "name": "No Status Change", "wiql": "Select [System.Id], [System.WorkItemType], [System.Title], [System.AssignedTo], [System.State], [System.AreaPath], [System.IterationPath]
From WorkItems Where [System.TeamProject] = #project AND [System.WorkItemType] = 'User Story' AND [System.State] = 'New' AND [Microsoft.VSTS.Common.StateChangeDate]
< #startofday( '-90d') }
I thought I had it, and I got an error message because I hadn't put a " towards the end (rookie mistake). I've re-run it but I still can't get it to work. I feel like it's really close but I tried running the sample request on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/wit/queries/create?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0 and it had a similar response so I don't think it's the body.
I'm getting back this message:
{
"$id": "1",
"innerException": null,
"message": "TF401243: The query {query} does not exist, or you do not have permission to read it.",
"typeName": "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.QueryItems.QueryItemNotFoundException, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server",
"typeKey": "QueryItemNotFoundException",
"errorCode": 600288,
"eventId": 3200
}
I've added the PAT to the authorization tab, so not sure what the issue is. I think it's nearly there, and I've been able to link into my DevOps project before with a simple GET test (so I don't think it's an issue with the connection between Postman and DevOps?), but I'm a little unsure of where to go next with this.
The full screenshot of what I've tried to run in Postman

Answer 1

You can run REST API in PowerShell.
Here is the script.
$token = "{PAT}"
$token = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($token)"))
$url="https://dev.azure.com/MattR778/ProjectA/_apis/wit/queries/{query}?api-version=5.0"
$body = #'
{
"name": "No Status Change",
"wiql": "Select [System.Id], [System.WorkItemType], [System.Title], [System.AssignedTo], [System.State], [System.AreaPath], [System.IterationPath] From WorkItems Where [System.TeamProject] = #project AND [System.WorkItemType] = 'User Story' AND [System.State] = 'New' AND [Microsoft.VSTS.Common.StateChangeDate]< #startofday( '-90d')
}
'#
$head = #{ Authorization =" Basic $token" }
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Post -Headers $head -Body $body -ContentType application/json
You can run the script in PowerShell or the PowerShell task in Azure DevOps pipeline.
In addition, you can also use some softwares designed to run APIs, like Postman.
Update:
In Postman, if you want to authenticate with PAT, you need to select "Basic Auth" in "Authorization" and enter PAT in the "Password".
In "Body", you need to select "raw" and choose "JSON". Then, paste your request body in the testbox.
The scripts above are for command-line tools such as PowerShell or Bash. If you are using Postman, you'd just need to provide the request body.
Update 2: