Whether the health state of children can automatically change when the parent's state changes
I have the same states and transitions defined for two types of work items (User Story and Task), and I would like that when any work item is executed in that particular state, all child work items that have the same state and transitions set with this state.
Example: A user story and a task has a status of Pending, and for example I have a user story that has 3 child work items, when I change the state of the user's parent story to migrate all child work items that have a status of Pending are automatically changed to Pending state
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You can absolutely do this if you want to build a server-side extension. My suggestion was to move ISubscriber by compiling the plugin DLL and place it in the plugins folder on each server application tier. We have more information on building ISubscriber
in Chapter 25 of our book, Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 by Wrox.
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