How to be notified when a defect is deleted

[afiliberto]

In my company, some users are complaining about team members deleting defects when they shouldn't. Fine-grain access control is not feasible at the moment so I was wondering if people could be notified when a defect is deleted by someone else so that they can talk to the person and understand the reasons for the deletion. 

The WATCH option is not feasible because people would have to manually do that for every defect.

I was thinking about notification rules but I'm not sure if there is an option for notification on deletion. 

[Wai Yin Chee]

Hi Arthur, 

Notification rules are only applicable to active work items. You can try having teams discuss their working agreement to ensure who gets to edit/delete items or evaluate the user project permissions. A Viewer permissions could be considered.

Thanks, 

Wai-Yin Chee