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Work items dependencies

Where can I read more about the work items dependencies (e.g.: parent-child, depends on, etc.)?
I want to understand how each of them work to decide which one fits better to my needs, but I was unable to find the doc and nothing on the online RTC help.

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Claudia Callegari

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Hi Claudia
There are two link types that have additional semantics:
Parent/Children: this is used by Agile Planning, e.g. all Tasks needed to implement a Story are children. The Plan will show children and parents and for the parent will aggregate the values from the children for progress computation.

Duplicates/Duplicate Of: this is used by Work Items when resolving a defect as 'Resolved' 'Duplicate'. When such a link is added the state of the duplicate is changed and when a link is removed, the item is reopened.

For other link types nothing is implemented as special semantic.

Regards

Marcel
Jazz Work Item team

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Hi Claudia
There are two link types that have additional semantics:
Parent/Children: this is used by Agile Planning, e.g. all Tasks needed to implement a Story are children. The Plan will show children and parents and for the parent will aggregate the values from the children for progress computation.

Duplicates/Duplicate Of: this is used by Work Items when resolving a defect as 'Resolved' 'Duplicate'. When such a link is added the state of the duplicate is changed and when a link is removed, the item is reopened.

For other link types nothing is implemented as special semantic.

Regards

Marcel
Jazz Work Item team


Is there Parent Child state dependency checking? Meaning I cannot close/resolve a Parent unless all the child have been resolved?

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With RTC 1.x there was a warning issued if you had inconsistent settings. No error and nothing prevented one from making inconsistent changes. This can be done using a custom condition though - I have seen a prototype.

Ralph


Hi Claudia
There are two link types that have additional semantics:
Parent/Children: this is used by Agile Planning, e.g. all Tasks needed to implement a Story are children. The Plan will show children and parents and for the parent will aggregate the values from the children for progress computation.

Duplicates/Duplicate Of: this is used by Work Items when resolving a defect as 'Resolved' 'Duplicate'. When such a link is added the state of the duplicate is changed and when a link is removed, the item is reopened.

For other link types nothing is implemented as special semantic.

Regards

Marcel
Jazz Work Item team


Is there Parent Child state dependency checking? Meaning I cannot close/resolve a Parent unless all the child have been resolved?

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Can You point to where can I found parent/child dependency mechanism implementations (condition for closing parent and/or automatic closing the parent when all children are closed)?
Thanks!

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The new and noteworthy for 3.0 Beta 2 has this:

Pre-condition that checks child states

There is a new precondition that enforces that a parent work item can only be resolved if all children are resolved. It also prevents adding children to already resolved parents.


I haven't used 3.0 or investigated the feature myself.

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