Restricting a story under story in Structure Plug-in

[Yuvi]

Hi,

We are currently using Structure Plug-in and also using Structure child link and structure parent link (custom links) to link different issue types(We have 5 different issue types). I have a requirement where we cannot have an story linked to another story as a parent or child in structure. But I want a story to be linked to all other issue types. Is there a way that we can restrict a story  not linked to another story in structure?

Thanks in Advance.

[Egor Tasa [ALM Works]]

Hi Yuvi,

Thank you for your question. At the moment, Structure cannot restrict linking by any criteria but the position within a structure - but that would mean that any link at specified level would be impossible.

There is at least one limited alternative solution, though. For example, you can set a formula column in structure to highlight any links between story and story. Formula would look something like:

IF(issuetype="Story" and PARENT{issuetype="Story"}, "INCORRECT LINK")

This will display "INCORRECT LINK" in a cell, when there is a story parent of a story in a structure. You can even use wiki markup to highlight this in red.

IF(issuetype="Story" and PARENT{issuetype="Story"}, "{panel:bgColor=red}INCORRECT LINK{panel}")

This would let you know that there was wrong link created and it can be subsequently eliminated. But it is not a preventive solution.

Further alternatives are outside Structure, and are even more limited, mostly they require scriptable validations, disabling manual linking etc. At least, I cannot think of any straightforward solution.

Regards,
Egor Tasa

ALM Works Support