Mashups quickly extend TargetProcess UI with almost any functionality. With mashups and REST API you can create new pages and reports, customize the available pages. Let's check an example. We want to change the color of cards on Kanban Board based on a tag.
Here is the full source code of the mashup and the customized UI:
REST API allows quick manipulations with TargetProcess data. You can extract User Stories, Bugs and Tasks, add or update them. REST API can be used for any programming language and development platform.
Some TargetProcess REST API features:
You can request an entity with some selected data only. You can reduce traffic, memory and CPU usage this way.
http://tp/api/v1/Bugs/?include=[Name, Description, Iteration[Name]] Filter data by various criteria: Equality, Greater than, In, Less than, etc.
http://tp/targetprocess/api/v1/Bugs?where=EntityState.Name eq 'In Progress'
You can get more information about Entity in a single request. For example, you can retrieve Tasks count for User Story and Bugs count for User Story.
http://tp/api/v1/UserStories/?append=[Bugs-Count, Tasks-Count]
You can create, update and delete almost any entity with REST.
POST http://tp/api/v1/Projects HTTP/1.1
Plugin is a component that extends TargetProcess functionality. You can create a variety of plugins to integrate TargetProcess with other web apps.
These plugins are available out-of-the-box in your TargetProcess instance:
TargetProcess plugins are based on the Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) which is loosely-coupled and is built with messages, not with an API.
