I recently started as a TFS administrator for a company that has been using TFS 2010 for a while.
We have a specific work item (We'll call it #123) that is stuck in a State (Re-opened) that can't be changed (no other options in the drop-down besides "Re-opened"). I am trying to figure out a way to close this particular work item (Change the status to "Closed"), but my Google searches keep bringing me up information about how to modify the Work Item Template, which I already know how to do.
The latest version of the template that's been imported into that particular Team Project contains a valid transition out of the "Re-opened" state to "Closed" for the group I am part of, and it works properly for all other work items in that Team Project.
So, the question of the day is, how can I close this work item? Is there a way to modify the transitions for it, or a commandline utility that'll let me force a change in the state for just this one work item?
I was able to resolve this by removing my group from the Project Administrators group and then adding it back in again. I'm not sure why it worked, I'm just glad it did.