Can you prevent a Parent work item from "outrunning" it's children?
When you create children work items, is there a way to prevent the parent work item from getting into a STATE further along in the workflow than it's children? For example, I don't want a parent DEFECT to get to Resolved State if there is a child TASK in In-Progress State, or similar?
thanks" Ken |
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Hi Ken,
There is a built-in precondition you can use that "Requires that a work item can only be resolved if all of its children are resolved." To use this precondition,
If you want something more specific, you can write your own custom precondition. https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RTCSDK20_ProcessPreConditionExample has more information on how to do this.
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Ralph Schoon (63.1k●3●36●46)
| answered Nov 21 '12, 7:18 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Nov 21 '12, 7:18 a.m.
To add to Lauren's answer, you could create an advisor/precondition that checks the parent and prevents a state change based on the child states. See http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/rtc-update-parent-duration-estimation-and-effort-participant/ on how to get to the parent (or to the children, which is the reverse) and http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/restrict-delivery-of-changesets-to-workitem-types-advisordelivery-of-changesets-associated-to-wrong-work-item-types-advisor/ for how an advisor would look like. Running https://jazz.net/library/article/1000 is the best entry point to get started with development of such code. Please be aware that it is not trivial and you really have to follow the workshop in the details, otherwise you will likely struggle.
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If you want to do this for parent child, then you can use the supplied Pre-condition as noted above, you have to enable it..
if you also want to do this for Depends On/Blocks links, that is NOT provided, but I posted the source for this pre-condition here |
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