Work Item Reassign Service

This web service is used to reassign a work item to another user.

Note: You can reassign a work item only if you own the work item or you have work item permissions.

When a work item is reassigned from the user interface, you can reassign the work item to specific users as controlled by the role delegation. However, when using this web service, you can reassign the work item to any valid user. The target user is not limited by role delegation setup.

Once reassigned, the work item is closed and a new work item is created for the target user. The status of the work item is the same as the original work item. For example, if the original work item was timed out, the new work item will also be timed out. If the target user has delegated the work item s to other users by setting up role delegation, more than one new work items may also be created. In this case, the work items are created for final users in the delegation chain.

Any existing lock is released when a work item is reassigned only if the lock is held by the owner of the work item.

Data for all newly created work items is returned in the response XML.