I would like to query the state of a work item at a specific date. E.g. I want to know what was the state of all work items of one team last Monday. Of course I can go through all single items and check the state graphs manually, but that's not really feasible with several hundred items.
I tried to use a combination of different fields, including the 'State Change Date' but it only tells me when a change happened but not what was the specific state on the selected date.
Is there any way to query the historical states of a work item?
How to query the historic state of items at a specific date?
You can achieve this in Power Bi. First create an Analytics view in Azure DevOps.
For example:
Then open this analytics view in Power Bi.
Filter by Date field:
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This is the work progress query i use on Azure DevOps. We have projects in different processes and i chose one project to check the progress and i query across all the projects from a single project. The query goes like this
Work item type, [Any]
And, State, [Any]
And, Assigned to, Team member name
And, Changed Date #StartOfDay('-1d')
Now im trying to make a dashboard with shared queries. Possible solution i could find is to save a shared query separetely for each team member and adding them to the dashboard. But if i have to check friday query results on monday then i have to change the number in last line to 3 for every query. it doesn not seem practical. is there another solution?
I would like to display the results of a query that identifies the bugs created in the current iteration. AKA "new bugs". I know this can be done by using the created date but that requires the date to manually updated for each new iteration.
Is it possible to leverage the 'current iteration' in the query? Or some way that does require a manual update.
I have tried using only 'current iteration' but this returns all bugs in the current iteration limited by the state that I specify. The result is not limited by when it was created.
I have tried to add a clause for created date, which works, but is not dynamic. meaning it does not increase as the iteration grows in number of days.
Yes, you can add a and/or clause like below
I have a second drop-down list as we have different Teams, so it wants me to tell it which Team I want to bring back items for, from the #CurrentIteration.
I am trying to come up with n Azure Board query to return the work I have performed during current sprint - which I am vaguely defining as:
Work In Current Sprint = [A] + [B]
where
A = work items where I completed development stage (or was decided at some point work is irrelevant) and
B = work items I created in current sprint, not necessarily assign to me nor my team (I spent time investigating an issue, and ended up, for instance, finding a bug, so I want this included in this "report").
The closest I could get is the query blow. Problem is it is still not quite accurate, since with regards to items I created during this sprint - I could not find a way to filter created items in this sprint only - results are showing up work items that CURRENTLY BELONG to current sprint, but not necessarily created in current sprint. The only way I see I can achieve what I want is using CreatedBy - but this only provides a "hardcoded" date range offset, at any given time. If I use an offset of 14 days backwards, running query at the last day of the sprint (considering a 2 week sprint duration) should work, but running the query at any day before that, during the sprint, will return stuff created in previous sprints.
I want this query to help me track "work I have performed during current sprint" (as defined above) at any given day within the sprint.
Any better ideas ?
You could use custom date in 'create date' to limit the work item.
And I notice you use 'work items and direct links', then you need set filters for 'Filters for linked work items' part(as you needed, like iteration path etc.). Otherwise it may return linked work item that belong to other iterations, according to the filled filter, like something belows:
I hope it could help.
When, in Azure Devops, opening the Boards > Backlog page there is no possibility to have an overview of all work items accross all of the teams.
You see "All backlogs", but they are divided into the teams.
I want to see an overview of all work items for all these teams.
Is this possible?
You can just create a simple query:
Then you can format it as a flat list or tree.
But keep in mind that the limit for query results is 20000 items.
I want to see an overview of all work items for all these teams.
You can't do that using any of the regular azure boards (kanban board and sprint board).
The only way (well, the only way known to me) to do that is with Queries (Boards -> Queries). To see work items across projects, remember to check the Query across projects checkbox.
At your disposal you have myriads of fields that you can use to filter your results as well. Use them to fine tune your query result if you want. Last but not least, use Column options to specify which columns to show in your result. Since you want work items across projects, you may want to be able to see which project an item belongs to without opening the item. To do that, include the column Area path from Column options dialog. I use the following columns, and sort by ID descending.
Finally save the query.
Now go to Dashboard, click the Edit button, and add the Query Results widget. Configure that widget to use the query you just created. Note that by default, the column Area Path is not included in the Selected columns list on the right, but you have to include it yourself from the Available columns list on the left. Move columns up/down as you see fit.
Click Done editing when you are done. Through that widget you can edit the work items by clicking on the Title of each work item, which will open the item in a modal. You cannot reorder items (I suppose to set priority) on this widget itself, but hey, setting priority is just a few clicks away, so not a big deal. If you like, you can sort the query result using Priority, and after updating priority you should click Refresh to see the updated result.
Hope that helps!
The Cumulative Flow Diagram is useful, but its granularity is set quite large, i.e. you can only see numbers for the dates it chooses, which can be a week or more apart. However, it shows that under the hood, VSTS is recording the state of the backlog at every date.
It seems that the data must exist to find out the data I need (in this case the sum of effort for each state for PBIs) as it was at a given date - not just the dates picked by the chart for its points.
I've searched around but can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know how to do it?
To set date for Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFD), you just need to click on the CFD and edit the date.
Such as to set the date of the CFD in backlog:
Click the diagram -> Edit -> specify the start date in Cumulative flow Tab -> Save.
Then the CFD will be changed based on the specified period.
To filter CFD by tag, type, Assign To etc, VSTS has not support this feature for now. But you can create an user voice for it, or you can calculate with your own code.