The field 'State' contains the value 'Approved' that is not in the list of supported values

Question

I am working with the Scrum workflow in TFS (Visual Studio 2017) and the only available value for the state is New when I would be expecting Approved, Committed and Done.

Why are they missing? How could I solve this?

Answer 1

The transitions between the different states of the work items are defined thanks to a specific workflow.

You have to save your work item with the "new" state before being able to modify its state to other states like Approved for example.

You can find more information at this page : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/boards/work-items/workflow-and-state-categories?view=vsts