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Is it possible to make the Comments field required as part of a state change in RTC?

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Daniel Gilio
(10●21●24) Apr 06 '15, 4:53 p.m.
 I have a customer who wants to make user add a Comment prior to completing a change of the status, Is it possible to make  user required to add a comment?

Please advise. Thanks,

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Abdelrahman Hassan
Oct 10 '17, 12:45 p.m.
Hello Danial - It's appreciated to share with us if you were able to handle this requirement.

Ralph Schoon
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Oct 10 '17, 1:56 a.m.
 Everything there is to know is already in the answers. Summary if you are too busy to read the answers: 1. There is no built in functionality to support that 2. You could create a custom precondtion 3. You could use other attributes that actually can be made required

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (30.1k●3●34●35) Apr 06 '15, 5:37 p.m.
I do not know of a pre-defined pre-condition that would enforce this, so you'd have to implement a custom pre-condition.
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Vijay Reddy Gaddam
Apr 07 '15, 8:06 a.m.
 Hi Geoffrey, Can you please help how can I implement custom pre-conditions please. Are there any tutorials then could you please help me out. Regards, Vijay Reddy.

Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Apr 07 '15, 11:01 a.m.
See one of Ralph's workshops, such as: https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/running-rtc-4-x-extensions-workshop-with-rtc-5-0/ For specific questions, first do a search on the forum questions.

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Manoj Panda
JAZZ DEVELOPER (393●4●67●62) Apr 06 '15, 10:48 p.m.
Hello Daniel,
  May be you would like to explain in details with use-cases. As workaround, i suggest to use the "Discussion" Text box whenever there is change in the status of the work item. you can also sort the comments in any order you like.

Hope this helps.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Apr 07 '15, 10:58 a.m.
I think Vijay was looking for a way to make this comment mandatory, i.e. every time I changed the status, I would be required to add a new comment for that status change.

Daniel Gilio
Apr 09 '15, 10:10 a.m.
Manoj, Thanks for the response. Specifically, we want to make the Comment under the discussion Section of the Defect required when entering taking the Resolve action (and entering the Resolve state). In this way, we can require the resolving user to provide a comment in the existing thread. I tried to load a screenshot, but the Jazz.net site says I need a reputation >60 to upload an image :-(

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Shuchita Tripathi
(314●3●65●95) Apr 07 '15, 7:47 a.m.
Hi,
You can create a custom field in the work item called as 'Comments' and make that mandatory whenever it goes to next state.
You can make an attribute mandatory by following these steps:
1. In RTC Eclipse client, go to Team Configuration -> Operations Behavior -> save work item
2. In Preconditions add Required attributes for Type and State. Select the work item and the state for which the 'Comment' attribute has to be made mandatory.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Apr 07 '15, 10:57 a.m.
Note that this would work only if there was only a single state that needed a comment, and that when they transitioned out of that state, and then back into it, they didn't need an additional comment.  One could handle different comments for different states by having multiple comment fields, i.e. "done-comment", "open-comment", "verified-comment", but that still would not deal with transitioning multiple times into a given state.

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