I'm trying to close a code review response work item in Devops/Visual studio and I get the Field 'Closed Status' cannot be empty error and I am unable to close the work item. The Closed Status is not editable in Visual Studio or DevOps.
I don't want to be editing the "Closed Status" in excel, I need a easier way of handling this. Any ideas?
I can reproduce the same, after investigation, it's a known issue which reported here.
You can use the workaround below to close them:
Open the code review requests in a DevOps query.
Select the request, on the right
side pane, change the state to closed
, it will report the error. Ignore that error and continue to step3.
click ...
on the left pane after the ticket name, click edit
:
In the popup select "Close Status Code" and pick value 5 and press OK. This will update the Closed Status (which was the cause for the error that we saw in step 2).