Set Child Work Item Field fails if there is a deployment task child of a PBI

[stutton]

Error when submitting a test doc that tries to set the PBI's child items to Code Complete if one of the children is a Deployment Task which cannot be set to code complete.
Message: The field 'State' contains the value 'Code Complete' that is not in the list of supported values.
Session ID: 1b349d4f-41cd-493a-890c-15916d9e1f16

[mrbcmorris]

What's the correct solution on this? It seems like on the SetChildWorkItemField we would want to specify the type of work items? But even in doing so, I don't see a way to limit the WorkItemFields query to a specific work item type which can always lead to incorrect configuration.

What about giving the user more power to specify the Work Item Type of the children being updated in the automation step and providing a report of automation success for each action taken rather than causing faults if TFS rejects something?

[stutton]

Probably specifying the child work item type in the template would be the most flexible. You could add multiple instances of the automation for different child types.

Would also be cool if we could get the valid values for fields like State and put them in a drop down. I think you'll get a similar error if you misspell 'In Progress' or something.

I had plans to have a more detailed progress indicator when finishing a document but I never got around to it.