{"id":7403,"date":"2006-05-25T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2006\/05\/25\/answer-to-an-e-mail-comment-concerning-policies-for-work-item-types\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:52:35","slug":"answer-to-an-e-mail-comment-concerning-policies-for-work-item-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/answer-to-an-e-mail-comment-concerning-policies-for-work-item-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer to an e-mail comment concerning policies for work item types"},"content":{"rendered":"

We received the following e-mail from khurram:<\/p>\n

“I am using VSTS Workgroup Edition, and want to enforce certain policies to Work Items in Project eg<\/font><\/p>\n

– Project Administrator can update “any” work item
– Only “Assigned” person can mark the work item “Resolved”
– Unless “Planned Hours” or other certain field is populated work item cannot be marked “Resolved”<\/font><\/p>\n

and so forth<\/font><\/p>\n

Any pointers will be helpful..<\/font>.”<\/p>\n

The answer is that all of these things are possible. <\/p>\n

1. If the project administrator is a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group, or the Contributors group, then they can edit any work item. The specific permission required is Edit work items in this node<\/strong>. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Default Groups, Permissions, and Roles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. To restrict state changes in a work item to a specific user or group, you must customize the work item type. There’s a great example of this in the topic Transition Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. To restrict state changes based on other fields states, such as required fields, again you must customize the work item type. In the state that you define, indicate that a field is required. For example:<\/p>\n

<STATE value=”Resolved”>
   <FIELDS>
      <FIELD refname=”Example.PlannedHours”>
         <REQUIRED \/>
<\/p>\n

Hope this helps,<\/p>\n

David Chesnut [MSFT]
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