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Konrad
Konrad

Reputation: 4762

TFS 2010 Queries for work item hierarchies with multiple levels

I've build up a hierarchical structure of all my work items with excel - all my work items are now organized in multiple levels.

User Story 1

|-- Task 1

| -- -- Sub Task 1

| -- -- -- Bug 1

| -- -- Sub Task 2

| -- -- -- Bug 2

| -- -- -- Sub Sub Task 3

| -- -- -- -- Bug 4

...

But how can I access all items under a certain work item (e.g., "All under Task 1") and visualize the results in a somehow hierarchical way?

Is this possible with TFS 2010 and VST 2010? Or do I need some third-party tools to get e.g., "All my Bugs for Sub Task 2" or "All Tasks for User Story 1"?

Thank you Konrad

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4433

Answers (1)

pantelif
pantelif

Reputation: 8544

In general you need to construct Work Item Queries in VS that have "Type of Query" equal to "Tree of Work Items".

To obtain a list of Bugs for Sub Task 2:
New Query of type "Tree of work items" with Work Item = Sub Task 2 & linked work items Type = Bug

To obtain a list of Tasks under UStory 1:
New Query of type "Tree of work items" with Work Item = User Story 1 & linked work items Type = Task

For an external tool: See here for a nice codeplex-solution that generates DGML - trees of Work Items.

Upvotes: 2

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