Is there any way to delete time spent when it was copied from another work item?
![]() When you copy a work item, you can select to copy "Time Spent" to the new Work Item. Is there any way to remove this option or to block it for admins only (we really don't want our users to do this, but I don't see any way to force it).
If they have used it anyway, can this value be removed somehow from the copied work item? It now shows "Time spent = 3 hours" even though this is a new work item with a new estimate etc.
PS: This throws off our reporting, so we want to avoid this if at all possible...
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![]() It occurs to me that you may have decided in your process to allow users to directly modify the Time Spent attribute without requiring that they enter timesheet entries. In this scenario, one option would be to make the attribute read-only when the work item is in the Created state. You can do this by configuring the out-of-the-box operation behavior aptly named "Read-Only Attributes for Type and State".
If this pre-condition is enabled for all initial states, users will be forced to uncheck the box when copying a work item or the copy will fail. They will also be forced to advance a work item to the next state before they can update the Time Spent attribute.
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