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Can this be done: Related Issues: start new Issue (Status= In Progress) after preceding issue has Status = Closed

Added by Frank H over 12 years ago

Hello,
Is this possible:
We want to use Redmine as a replacement of our Excel runbook to roll-out new software versions.
99% of the required functionality is in Redmine, however I am struggling to find out how to achieve this:

It is important that some tasks (issues) can only start (status=In Progress) when the preceding issue has been closed (or 100% ready)

This can be partly achieved with the Related Issues functionalty (Blocked by), however this only affects being able to select the status 'closed' in the issue
The easiest way would be to add a 'cannot start when task is 100% ready' code in the Related issues field.
When this option has been selected, the status 'In Progress' will be hidden in the Status field of the issue.

I hope I could have made myself clear
any help is appreciated

thx
Frank


Replies (2)

RE: Can this be done: Related Issues: start new Issue (Status= In Progress) after preceding issue has Status = Closed - Added by Ivan Cenov over 12 years ago

AFAIK, this is not implemented in Redmine. Closing of a task does not make another task that is blocked by this task to change its state.

Anyway, this is a cool idea - to have triggers in Redmine: When something happens then another thing to happen. Particularly, this works for e-mail notifications: when something changes in tasks, e-mails are sent.

If such a system existed an user (admin or project leader) could define sets of Redmine-wide or project-wide triggers. Several examples of usage:

  • A blocking task is closed. This triggers any depending tasks to go to status In progress
  • A task status changes from In progress to QA test. This triggers Assigned to field to change to QA person.
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