Question

I have the same states and transitions defined for two type of work items (User Story and Task) and I would like when some work item is transitioned in that particular state that all child work items that have the same state and transitions are set with this state.

Example:
User Story and Task have state Postponed, and for example I have User Story that have 3 child work items, when I change state of parent User Story to Postponed all child work items that have state Postponed are changed automatically to state Postponed

Answer 1

This is certainly useful functionality but currently there’s no support for it. You can use the TFS-API to invoke state changes. This post provides a related example.