Required Approvals Precondition - Multiple reviews
I have configured the Required Approvals Precondition as follows.
1) Required for a Task in the In Progress state. 2) Required approvals are Review - Approved. If I have only one Review and the Review is in the Pending state, I correctly receive an error message when I attempt to move the work item to the In Progress state. If I have two Reviews, one Review in the Pending state and one Review in the Approved state, I am able to move the work item to the In Progress state. This does not seem correct. I would have expected to receive an error message because all Reviews were not in the required state of Approved. Is this a bug? Thanks. |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Dec 21 '11, 9:23 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
You can currently use the Required Approvals precondition to require 1
of each of the 3 types of approvals (i.e. Approval, Review, and Verification). But to require more than one of a given type of approval (or to require approvals with particular Subjects), you would need to implement your own custom precondition. Also, feel free to submit a work item describing the particular precondition that you'd like to see provided. Cheers, Geoff On 12/21/2011 8:23 AM, rpastuch wrote: Geoff, |
Hi Rich,
i face this problem too and it looks like more an enhancement. They could add an extra field at approvals form (besides type, description, etc) where te user will set the state wich this approval is linked with. So when users try to change WI state, RTC search for all approvals linked with that target state and verify if they are approved. For now i think only advisor could save us! eheheheh []s Fausto I have configured the Required Approvals Precondition as follows. |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Dec 21 '11, 12:08 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
The Required Approvals precondition says that "at least one of the
specified approvals must exist" (not "all of the specified approvals must exist"). To require that both people approve, you wouldn't create two approvals .... instead, you would create one approval with two approvers. What matters is the overall state of an approval, and that doesn't go to "approved" until all approvers of that approval have approved it. Cheers, Geoff On 12/20/2011 4:38 PM, rpastuch wrote: I have configured the Required Approvals Precondition as follows. |
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Geoff,
My scenario is that I have different types of aprovals (e.g., Code Review, Design Review, SME Review). I need to track, report, and enforce these different types of approvals. Thanks. Rich The Required Approvals precondition says that "at least one of the |
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Hi Geoff,
setting two people as approvers sove only one part of the problem. What i think Rich (and me too) wants to do is two approvals (independent of his type), for example, "approve if code is ok?" and "revision documentation is ok?" and RTC checks if both are approved to allow state change. Actually (as you said) at RTC you can only choose: state A, B and C need approvals. Create 3 approvals. Approve only one. Try to change WI state between A,B,C and everything goes ok! Thats because RTC don't link the approval with the state, he just look quantity. If RTC give us a way to link a approval with a state it will be nice. Geoff, The Required Approvals precondition says that "at least one of the |
I know of another customer that has used the team Configuration -> Operation Behavior section, and selected Source Control -> Deliver (client), and used the Require Work Item Approval precondition. They then made sure that any code delivery was essentially signed off by at least one person in the architect role, and two people in the developer role. This was their way of enforcing some sort of design/code review of any code changes.
With this precondition, you can set the minimum number of approvals from each role that are required. You should definitely play around with this on a test system/project, so you understand how it works, before attempting to deploy this in one of your active projects.
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In RTC 4.0.1, it says the following for "Required Approvals" precondition of the "Save Work Item (server)" operation. "Verifies that a work item can only be saved if all required approvals are in the configured state." So it should apply to all the approval records. However, I am not able to specify roles as I can with the "Deliver (Server)" operation. The enhancement for that is opened:
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