In project collaboration, you can use associations between work items to automate your delivery workflow.
Background information
In project collaboration, automating your delivery workflow with associations helps your team respond quickly to requirement changes and improve project velocity.
Create association rules
To improve your delivery workflow, you can use new association-based templates for automation rules. You can set an automation rule to run when an association is created. The available actions include triggering a status change, a field change, a notification, or a webhook.
In the Add Automation Rule dialog box, set the trigger condition to run when a Product Requirement is associated with an Online Issue. For the action, select Change Status To and specify a destination status. Select an execution account, and then click Add to Rule List to create the rule.
Additionally, after an association is established, a status change in an associated item can also trigger an automation rule.
In the Add Automation Rule dialog box, set the trigger to run when all work items associated with a Product Requirement have a status of Developing. For the action, select Change Status To and specify a destination status. Set the execution account to automation rule, and then click Add to Rule List.