Marking Tasks and Bugs as “Done” During a Check-in

In recent weeks, a few different people have asked me how to modify the Scrum template such that a Task or Bug is marked as Done during a check-in.   We left this out of the original state flow because we wanted the done state transition to be very intentional, but it’s a common practice and a very handy feature.

To change this behavior on an in-flight project you want to add the Microsoft.VSTS.Actions.Checkin action to the appropriate state transition in your work item definition.  With the Scrum template, this would be on the In Progress –> Done transition for the Task work item, and the Committed –> Done transition for the Bug work item.

Below is a snippet of the In Progress –> Done transition on the Task work item after applying the changes.

<TRANSITION from="In Progress" to="Done">
 <ACTIONS>
   <ACTION value="Microsoft.VSTS.Actions.Checkin" />
 </ACTIONS>
 <REASONS>
   <DEFAULTREASON value="Work finished" />
 </REASONS>
</TRANSITION>

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