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Richard A
Richard A

Reputation: 427

How can I show all work items in azure devops work items screen

So by default when I go into my azure devops work items for particular project it has around 7 pre-defined options shown in image below, for example recently created shows last 30 days. I find it really frustrating that there is no option to view all work items in here, as i would be nice to be able to search first and make sure duplicate items don't get logged. I have did some searching and the only work around seems to be to create a query which is a bit cumbersome.

Surely there is another way to achieve this in the work items screen ? Thanks for any help

Work items

Upvotes: 39

Views: 32365

Answers (5)

dave-cz
dave-cz

Reputation: 413

<my_org> - My Work Items

https://dev.azure.com/<my_org>/_work

Here are all my work items, active in Assigned to me and all in My activity.

Upvotes: 0

Sandra C
Sandra C

Reputation: 11

If you select EPICS in the Backlog view, then expand the list fully (from the + and - at the top left) you will see ALL open and closed Features, User Stories and Tasks.

This will work if you do NOT close an Epic.

Upvotes: -1

checkBool
checkBool

Reputation: 1

Go to the backlog, all items will be there and you can toggle completed items on/off

Upvotes: -1

SomeoneElse
SomeoneElse

Reputation: 479

More of a workaround than an answer, but:

Select Azure DevOps / Boards / Work Items / Recently Created

Open in queries
Editor
Amend or remove selection criteria
Save Query

Then to run that query:

Azure DevOps / Boards / Open in queries 
Click Queries at the top
Select the query you saved

Upvotes: 13

Leo Liu
Leo Liu

Reputation: 76670

How can I show all work items in azure devops work items screen

Sorry for any inconvenience.

This behavior is by designed. There is no way to fix it at present.

As we know, those 7 pre-defined options use the cache mechanism, which will keep the last option used last.

Just like the last time we used the option Assigned to me, then the next time we click on Work items, it will show Assigned to me by default. This can bring us convenience according to our usage habits.

So, if we add the option for All Work items in the Work items screen, this will greatly increase the burden of Azure devops and make the response of Azure devops slow or even crash. That because work items serve the entire org, usually all work items will be a large number.

To get the all Work items, we have to create a query and save this query, you just need to run that query when you check the duplicate items instead of creating it every time.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 3

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