I am beginning to think that there are limits to the extent that the task.xml WORKITEM can be modified; I am guessing the problem resides in the generic tasks that TFS places in your "todo" list at the creation of your project. There seems to be no way to turn off the creation of these assignments when you create your project.

Hello,

I doubt that the pre-defined tasks in the process template are causing the project creation errors with task.xml. It could be that the work item type definition that you have uploaded has a conflict. Can you post the data from task.xml here so we can take a look at it?

Thanks!

I have been using that. And it verifies the templates just fine. Again the process template is also uploaded and verified by TFS just fine. The error only occurs during project creation.

Hello,

This is what your task.xml file has:

<TRANSITION from="" to="Assigned">

<REASONS>

<REASON value="New Task assigned by Supervisor" />

<DEFAULTREASON value="New Task assigned by Submitter" />

</REASONS>

The only allowed transition from "" is to "Assigned" but in the workitems.xml the default tasks being uploaded had Active as the initial state:

<WI type="Task">
<FIELD refname="System.State" value="Active" />
<FIELD refname="System.Reason" value="New" />

....

Secondly, the Reason value has to be changed from "New" to "New Task assigned by Supervisor".

Also, you are requiring a value for the EstimatedHours field but the default tasks do not have this field being set. So either remove the Required tag for the EstimateHours in task.xml or set a value for the default tasks in workitems.xml.

Once you make these changes to the default task items in workitems.xml file and upload the template, you should be able to create a project (I was able to :-))

Let us know if you are still having issues.

Thankyou so very much for your helpful assistance.

My problem was that I did not spend the time to understand what was really going on in workitems.xml. I saw all the tasks and was confused by what seemed to be multiple entries and did not realize what they were doing. Now it seem so obvious I am embarrassed.

At the very least I think that uploading the process template could find the disconnects between workitems.xml and task.xml. When you creat the project, the error message doesn't point you to the source of the real problem. (Tried to set State="New" but only "New Task - xyz", "New Task - abc" were available reasons). (WorkItem "x" does not set required field "y" in workitem.xml) Even though it is obvious now, better error messages would be helpful.