TFS Tip: Making a field READONLY after the work item has changed states

Ever need to make a field read-only to everyone except for a specified group, but only once the work item has made it past a specific state?

You could achieve this by marking a field as read-only when it gets to a specified state. So after you enter the initial information, you move your work item to a state of Active (or you can use any other state), and within that state definition add a field rule to make it readonly. In the following sample, i’m making description readonly when the workitem is in the active state. Note that it is readonly for everyone, except for project administrators:

    <STATE value="Active">
     <FIELDS>
      <FIELD refname="Microsoft.VSTS.Common.ClosedDate">
       <EMPTY />
      FIELD>
      <FIELD refname="Microsoft.VSTS.Common.ClosedBy">
       <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE />
       <EMPTY />
      FIELD>
      <FIELD refname="System.AssignedTo">
       <REQUIRED />
      FIELD>
      <FIELD refname="System.Description">
       <READONLY not="[Project]\Project Administrators" />
      FIELD>
     FIELDS>
    STATE>

You would have to apply the same rule to all the states in your work item that should have this rule.

156 thoughts on “TFS Tip: Making a field READONLY after the work item has changed states”

  1. Haydn Porch

    Esteban, making a field readonly for all except project administrators is exactly what I am looking for. However, when I access the Task template using the Process Editor’s, ‘Open WIT from Server’. I can add the ‘REQUIRED’ rule but when I apply the ‘not’ clause I only have ‘[Global]’ groups in the drop down i.e. [Global]\Project Collection Administratore, etc. How can I input [project]\Project Administrators?

    Thanks

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  2. Esteban Garcia

    Haydn,
    You can just type in the name of the group if you don’t see it in the drop-down list.

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