Building dependancies between Work Item Instances

Hi,
We want to build a strict sequence of work items:

Task c, cannot be started before task b,( and task b cannot be started
before a, and so on).

How can we define , prepare such a behaviour at the process template
level (or in ProjectArea)?

At the moment (in the Process Template) at Project Area Initialization
Setup Project Server Follow/On actions, we have defined 7 Work Item
Template. We would like to be able to set up some kind of
'dependancies|blocking' mechanism between these Work Items. (once
again, the goal is that a task cannot be started before the previous
is finished)

Any ideas? (we don't mind if the solution is very complicated or
elaborate...)

Hi,

what we have are the blocks/depends links between work items, but these are not enforced in any way and the Setup follow-up action cannot be configured to create links between the work items.

If you wanted you could write your own setup follow-up action that supports links between work items and an operation participant for the 'save work item' operation that checks that all dependencies are resolved before a work item can be set 'in progress' or be resolved.

I've opened enhancements 59096 and 59097 to capture your requests.

Regards,

Christof
Jazz Work Item team