board-github

PUT /v1/board-github/links/{linkId}/fields/{fieldId}/wip

Set an advisory WIP limit on one status option.

All board-github endpoints

Authentication

Send an API key as a bearer token. This endpoint does not state a specific permission in the specification, so give your key the least it needs and check the response rather than assuming.

This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.

Try it

Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.

curl -X PUT https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/board-github/links/{linkId}/fields/{fieldId}/wip \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "option_id": <string> }'

Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console

Details

**GitHub has no WIP limit feature at all**, so this is new capability rather than a nicer rendering of theirs. It writes nothing to GitHub and cannot fail because of them. Advisory, exactly as a board column's limit is: a limit that *refused* a move would turn a management convention into an outage at 17:55 on a Friday — and here it would be refusing a write into somebody else's GitHub. `limit: null` clears it.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
linkId (path)stringYesThe GitHub Projects connection.
fieldId (path)stringYesThe project field, by OUR id.

Request body

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
option_idstringYes
limitintegerNo

Response

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
idstringNo
field_node_idstringNo
namestringNo
data_typeGitHubProjectFieldTypeNoEvery field type Projects v2 exposes, spelled as GitHub spells it. The full set, not the four that are easy: a board that rendered TEXT/NUMBER/DATE/SELECT and silently dropped I…
positionintegerNo
optionsobject[]NoThe select's options, or the iteration's sprints. Completed iterations are kept and marked rather than dropped — a sprint board whose finished sprints vanish cannot show a burn-…
wip_limitsobjectNoAdvisory cap per single-select option, keyed by option id. Ours, not GitHub's.
writablebooleanNoComputed server-side from the type, so the UI never keeps its own copy of which types GitHub will accept. Two lists would drift, and the drift shows up as an editable control wh…

Errors this endpoint can return

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