How can I restrict permissions to change state to Closed?

How can I restrict permissions on work items so that only certain people have the right to close them? Better yet, how can I further filter this restriction to limit this right based upon thetype of work item?

Here are two examples:

  1. I would like to add a restriction that only members of the QA group can change the state of abug-type work item to closed.
  2. I would like to add a restriction that only members of the Product Management group can change the state of aquality of service-type work item to closed.

[633 byte] By [Dave_Novak] at [2008-2-10]
# 1

You can do that by editing work item type definition for the type and setting permissions on the transition:

<TRANSITION from="Resolved" to="Closed" for="domain\QA" >

Note that TRANSITION element supports both "for" and "not" attributes, and you can specify both.

You can find more information about customizing work item types here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194976(VS.80).aspx

Thanks,

Alex

# 2
Excellent! I'll give that a try.
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