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Improve error message when setting parent of a work item

Eugenia Grieff requested to merge 464283-improve-error-message-for-work-items-parent-widget into master

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Related to #464283 (closed)

When setting the parent of a work item, any error is currently returned formatted for the parent context, not the child. For example, when viewing a work item with a reference #10 and trying to add a work item #20 as a parent that returns an error, we currently see:

#10 cannot be added: is not allowed to add this type of parent

To fix this, this MR changes the errors returned when changing a parent to reference the parent instead. The example above will display:

#20 cannot be added: is not allowed to add this type of parent

Other examples (in this case the work item reference is #54):

Before After
When trying to add #56 as a parent, that is a confidential work item
confidential_error_before confidential_error_after
When trying to add #55 as a parent, that is a child work item
parent_is_child_error_before parent_is_already_a_child_after
When trying to add #46 as a parent, that is a task
invalid_type_of_parent_before invalida_parent_type_after

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Edited by Eugenia Grieff

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