Workflow weakness COPYing entered (but not saved) data

Question

Hi

I have added a field to CMMI Bug called Developer. My goal is :-

Bug cannot transition be Active unless Developer has a value.
AssignedTo automatically gets a copy of Developer when transition ->Active

I have not found a solution that works exactly as specified above. Always seem to bump into some weakness in the workflow capabilities

I can achieve the following (with a Proposed Bug):-

1) If the user enters Developer, Saves, chooses Active, Saves, then Developer is copied OK.
2) If the user enters Developer,        chooses Active, Saves, then the Developer is NOT copied since it is not in the DB.

Is there anyway to fix case 2) ?

Peter

Answer 1

Hi Peter,

Yes , you are right, the value of Developer is empty before the workitem is saved,  copy or default rule does not work.

So I think that WorkItemType definition does not support your requirement, but you can create a custom work item control. There is a sample here

Best Regards,
Ruiz

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