Thanks Everyone:

My project was based on another project, the Master, so the first thing was that I was looking in the wrong place; the child project area instead of the master.

Once I realized that I dug into the master and found what I was looking for, after checking my error message that said it had to do with a “Save Work Item (Server)” and that “Required Attributes for Type and State” were not met.

It was under the Team Configuration (not sure why it’s not in the Project Config, but oh well).

Operation Behavior:

In the Operations column, find the Work Items section and the Save Work Items (server) section under there.

In the Everyone column there is an icon indicating that there is Operation Behavior selected for the Save Work Items (server) row.

Click on it and it should put a check box in the “Preconditions and follow-up actions are configured for this operation”

That should cause a list of Preconditions, that have been already set, to show up in the Preconditions box.

I selected “Required Attributes for Type and State” and on the right side of the page a list “Category or Type” and associated Attributes was displayed.

This is where it got even more confusing.

I expanded the “com.xxx.xxx.category.workrequest” item which gave me a list of all the states and there were NO attributes selected for any of them.  Confusing.

After searching around some more I went back to that screen and found at the end of the list of states for the “com.acn.adt2.category.workrequest” item there was another expandable item for the work item thta had beenb defined using the standard work request as a foundation. 

And there I found the list of fields that are required for each state!

Persistence rewarded!