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How to create rules for work items in TFS 2018 and TFS 2019?

I need to create rules for work items that will check for special characters in the fields. I need to ban all special characters like (@&*()^%$) etc. TFS supports this?

How can I do it?

Solution

  • How to create rules for work items in TFS 2018 and TFS 2019?

    I am afraid TFS 2018 and TFS 2019 do not yet support such fine rule restrictions.

    According to the document Add a rule to a work item type (Inheritance process), we could to know the conditions and actions currently supported by the Workitem rule:

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    Obviously, we could not check all special characters for the fields at this moment, even if we use the conditions The value of (...equals), since what we need is The value of (...exclude).

    You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps.

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    Hope this helps.