I'm creating a Visual Studio Team Services extension that in it's current iteration is supposed to display child tasks for development, testing, etc. that were added to a work item. I build a WIQL query to get these tasks and some data about them.
In VSTS (and TFS), tasks have an Activity field, which I want, to differentiate between the different types of tasks (development, testing, etc.). However, I'm finding with the below WIQL query I create, I get the following error: TF51005: The query references a field that does not exist. The error is caused by «[System.Activity]». Is there a way I can get access to the Activity field for those tasks? Or is it just not supported currently?
SELECT [System.Id], [System.WorkItemType], [System.Title],
[System.Activity], [System.State]
FROM WorkItemLinks
WHERE (Source.[System.TeamProject] = 'someProjectID'
AND Source.[System.Id] = someWorkItemID
AND Source.[System.State] <> 'Removed')
AND ([System.Links.LinkType] = 'System.LinkTypes.Hierarchy-Forward')
AND (Target.[System.WorkItemType] = 'Task')
MODE(Recursive)
Working through this I discovered https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ottostreifel.wiql-editor, which has helped make it alot easier debugging my WIQL query. I highly recommend it to anyone who is new to working with WIQL.
You can create a query with necessary fields in web access, then get detail wiql by using Get a query or folder REST API (add $expand=wiql parameter).
I looked some more and discovered my answer, apparently Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Activity is the field you want to reference to get the activity for the task. I found it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/work/track/query-numeric. Looks like there's some more information there about some data you can grab, like Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.StoryPoints. However it's definitely not a complete list, and I wasn't able to find one. Feel free to comment on this if you know of a complete list of references to use to grab anything you want about a work item!
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I have an OData Query that I am using to pull data into PowerBI that I am trying to make more efficient. I am doing a report from Azure DevOps and pulling data in from the WorkItemRevisions resource. Currently, I am pulling all the data for a Work Item and then filtering in PowerBI to only get when the State has changed. I would like to move this filtering to the Odata query so that I can minimize the data that I am pulling into the report.
Currently, I have a query like the following (simplified example used for this question)
https://analytics.dev.azure.com/{Organization}/{Project}/_odata/v3.0-preview/WorkItemRevisions?
$select=Revision,WorkItemId,WorkItemType,Title,State,ChangedDate,LeadTimeDays,ParentWorkItemId
How can this be updated so that only Revisions where the State has changed (from New to Active, Active to Done, etc) are returned?
How can this be updated so that only Revisions where the State has changed (from New to Active, Active to Done, etc) are returned?
I am afraid that OData Query could not perfectly achieve what we need.
There is a feature Revisions/any(r:r/state eq '{state}') to filter the work item has a set state in the past.
For example:
https://analytics.dev.azure.com/<Organization>/<Project>/_odata/v2.0//WorkItems?
$filter=State eq 'Closed' and Revisions/any(r:r/State eq 'Active')
This query is similar to a Work Item query that uses the Was Ever operator.
As I said, this may not be a perfect solution. That because it can only filter whether the work item has ever had a specified states, but cannot accurately determine the states of the work item must be from New to Active, Active to Done. If we change the state of the workitem from Active to Resolved, then change it from Resolved to Closed. Then this work item will appear in the query results.
In addition, even if you use the UI query, we cannot accurately query the result of the work item status changing from A to B. To achieve this goal, we need to use REST API.
So, we could use the feature Revisions/any(r:r/state eq '{state}') to reduce the data pulled into the report to a certain extent.
You can use below query to achieve what you want.
/_odata/v4.0-preview/WorkItemRevisions?&$apply=filter(((WorkItem/WorkItemType
eq 'Bug' or WorkItem/WorkItemType eq 'Product Backlog Item') and
((WorkItem/ChangedDate ge 2022-10-05Z and WorkItem/ChangedDate le
2022-11-04Z) or (WorkItem/CreatedDate ge 2022-10-05Z and
WorkItem/CreatedDate le 2022-11-04Z))))/groupby((WorkItemId,State),
aggregate(ChangedDate with min as MinChangedDate))
To filter the group by data you need to encapsulate it under $apply as it is shown above.
Above URL will return all states and their changed dates for Bug and PBI Work Item types which are added or updated with a given date range.
Hope it helps!
if you are able to use Analytics Views instead of OData, there is a dedicated field available in Analytics Views Fields setting called "State Changed Date"
In Azure DevOps portal how to query list of work items whose "Completed effort" is modified today. Actually I'm trying to query list of work items my team members have worked today and email them to my manager.
I'm able to query list of work items "modified" by users today, but I do not want to retrieve a work item if it's completed effort is not modified and some other filed is modified.
I am afraid it cannot be done directly. There is not such a filter of completed effort change.
However, there is a workaround to achieve this. Check below:
1, Add a custom field of Date type(see below Modified Date field). Check here for detailed steps.
2, Create a rule: Check here for detailed steps:
Condtions: When change was made to Completed work field.
Action: Set the customized Modified Date field to the Changed Date
3,Then you can add Modified Date filter in your Query. See below query, only the work items whose completed effort filed is modified today will be returned:
Another workaround is to use work item tracking Rest api. This is a little complicated:
1, First call Wiql rest api to get all the work items of your current query.
2, Second loop through the returned work items and call Updates rest api, Then filter those work items whose completed effort field has new value.
Is there a way I can reorder work items from a query results as I would normally do with backlog work items?
I'm using the order of work items in the backlog to set the order of issues to address, I would like to use queries to view work items by certain criteria (cross-project) so the backlog board is not a good choice for me.
thank
The description is little confusing, but if you just want to order your query result(according to the title of this thread) by specific condition, the wiql would be very helpful.
Add the Wiql Editor extension to your organization, then create a query with the other conditions you need, click the "Edit query wiql" and update the query wiql.
For information about wiql syntax, please check Syntax for the Work Item Query Language (WIQL), the order by would be the one you are looking for.
Is there a way to query work items where a user was mentioned? I am able to receive 'hard-coded' results by querying for
"History"-"Contains word"-"\#Username",
but I want a generic version, which works for all users. (Opposed to writing one query for every user)
Use this predicate:
Field: "ID"
Operator: "In"
Value: "#RecentMentions"
This automatically filters for work items, where current user has been mentioned.
I found it in predefined filter "Mentioned" in "Work Items" section. If you click on "Open in Queries" button, you will get a query with above filter. (This section can even remove the need for that query...)
Note: at present time, works only in VSTS.
https://{org}.visualstudio.com/{project}/_workitems/mentioned/
This would achieve the same result.
There is no way to achieve this by work item query directly just as starain mentioned. You can create a custom hub or custom widget by using VSTS Extension to show these information in web portal.
You can’t achieve that through work item query directly, you could build a app to retrieve data through REST API (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/api/wit/wiql), change query text according different conditions (e.g. users)
Your query should be something like this
Select Id,Title From WorkItems Where ID IN (#RecentMentions) order by [System.ChangedDate] desc
here is the reference for rest of the macro's available in ADO rest API.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/queries/query-operators-variables?view=azure-devops
I'm starting to get the hang of NetSuite but this one has stumped me. I am looking for a way to update the line items on an order from a workflow in NetSuite. From what I can tell it doesn't seem to expose those fields, is there any way around this?
I have a saved search returning all of the transaction line items that I want modified, there is a field on the Sales Order Line Item called "Create Fulfillment Order". It shows up under saved searches as "Create Fulfillment Order Column", but when I add an action to a workflow to set the field value, the only fields that show up are Sales Order fields. Is there any way to access the Sales Order Column fields, since that's really what's being returned by my saved search anyways.
I've looked at the Sub Types defined in the workflow to see if there's one for Sales Order Item or anything but there's not, just Sales Order. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
There's nothing built-in that will let you access transaction line items from a workflow. You'll need to use SuiteScript to create a custom workflow action. Then you can call that action from your workflow.