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Is there a way to prevent a parent case from being closed before all its children cases are closed first?

edited Aug 30 2010 at 19:00

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asked Aug 30 2010 at 15:38

Brenda Graham
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This is a huge problem for me and my team as well. It would be great if we had the option to say for any given project that the status of a parent case cannot exceed the lowest status for a subcase. That way, once all the subcases are closed/implemented/fixed, the parent automatically updates. It seems very silly to allow a parent case to close while the subcases are not closed themselves. – Jackson5280 Apr 13 at 15:57

Greg Saven · Answer 1 · 2010-08-30 20:06:37Z UTC

Currently, no. And I doubt that FogCreek will implement such a restriction because it goes against the general FogBugz philosophy of getting out of the way of the user as much as possible.

That being said, I too would like to see some workflow additions that allow for much better control over how subcases are dealt with, since they are such a powerful feature.

adambox · Answer 2 · 2010-09-20 18:24:52Z UTC

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You can implement this by writing a plugin. Plugins cannot prevent a case from being committed (saved), but one could reopen a case with a warning message explaining why it was reopened.

answered Sep 20 2010 at 18:24

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Preventing Parent case from closing before children cases.

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