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Cataster
Cataster

Reputation: 3541

Is there a setting to force user stories to be linked to a parent?

There is a setting for forcing story points to be entered when creating a work item (e.g. user story) in the layout processes field options, but is there one for mandating linking of work item/story to a parent?

story points option

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 1107

Answers (1)

Kim Xu-MSFT
Kim Xu-MSFT

Reputation: 2216

There isn't a straight forward way to do that.

A good option is to create a custom field in User Story work item in your inherited process.

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And set the work item rule to make required the value of this field when creating User Stroy.

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Check the UI output by using the rule. This could be a reminder to link the parent work item.

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Update 1:

You still need to manually add link as Related Work.

The required value for the custom field works as a reminder for the users when creating the User Story.

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You could also define the custom field as Picklist(string). When a user creates a new User Story, he could add Related Work links and pick a value for the custom field in order to save this User Story.

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Output:

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Upvotes: 2

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