I am trying to use Areas to divide up work on a project, but the default backlogs in TFS 2017 don't show any items assigned to Areas that are not the default root Area.
Project
==Default Area
====Client 1 Sub-Area
======Epics, Stories, etc.
====Client 2 Sub-Area
======Epics, Stories, etc.
All of the items in the sub-areas disappeared from all Boards. Queries still work, but the view is list view only. I need to be able to show all of the team's work on one board, and even better if the Areas become swimlanes on the Board.
There does not appear to be a way to alter the query used by the Backlogs, nor is there a way to show a Board for custom queries. How can I show Items from all Areas on a Board?
Go to the team project Work setting page. click the blue words "click here".
In the team setting Area page, click "Select area(s)", then add those sub-areas. The selected area paths will determine what shows up on your team's backlog and what work items your team is responsible for.
In addition to TingTings answer:
Instead of selecting the sub areas one by one you can also use the context menu of the parent area to include all sub areas.
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I can look at the Epic itself and view it's child issues, but I'd like be able to view it in the backlog, where I can organize things (add/remove Issues from Epic) with drag'n drop. Guessing it's just not possible.
The Board for that Project filters on only that project by default. If you change the Board filter to include all projects it'll show all in the Backlog/Epic view.
I created a search filter through Click Issues->Search for issues, in Jira and shared it with the developer group.
Now I am not aware where has the developer navigate to view the filter. Can someone give me that general path on which the search filter which is shared to the person or group can view.
There are two ways they can get to the filter:
On the menu at the top, select Filters. The second item from the bottom is View all filters and the filter you created will be on that page.
The other way to reach it is by clicking on the cog icon that gets you into settings. Select System from the menu and then scroll the list on the left down until you reach Shared filters. Again, the filter you created will be on that page.
I would like to be able to customize the font color and size in a specific user story in TFS.
I have added a user story to the backlog in TFS the title is;
< --^--^--^--^--Needs Triage --^--^--^--^-- >
I have done this to easily call out the defects and stories that have been added to the back log since the last time we had a triage.
I think it would increase the usability if I could make this title pop out in the list view and am hoping there is a way to easily set the color.
One possible solution would be to use the Styling Rules on your Board view
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/work/customize/customize-cards
I have created multiple area paths for each module in our system.
When working in the Backlog I'd like to filter backlog items for one of the modules (Area Path). I could not figure out how to do that, so I simply added the Are Path field to the Backlog view and used the Filter for filtering on the requested module.
This worked, but when there are Tasks associated to the backlog item, they also show up in the Backlog, which quickly pollutes the view. Is there another way to either enable filtering on Area path or hiding Tasks from the backlog view?
The filter box in the (Product) Backlog view only works on keywords, unfortunately, and you can't exclude items. There is also a Tags filter. If you click the filter button, you can click the tags you want to include. This would require you to add a "backlog" tag to all the items you want to show (excluding tasks, of course) but, even though it works, it's not a great solution, because you have to manually add the tag to the work items you want to display.
If you're not tied to the Backlog view, you could switch over to the (Kanban) Board view. There is a more advanced filter there. Click "Board" at the top, then the filter button in the upper right, and then you can filter according to work item type and other values. This is probably what I would do.
The third option is to convert your view into a query by clicking Create Query at the top of the backlog (or just manually writing a new query). You can then edit the query to exclude Tasks. The advantage is that it's a lot easier to control what work items you see (or don't see), and how you see them. The disadvantage is that you lose the ability to drag-drop for stack ranking, and other backlog features.
Is there any view when I can change the item priorities in the scope of one sprint besides the product backlog view? It will be great to have such a possibility in sprint backlog view, however in that one I can only move items to another sprint using drag and drop, without changing the ordering (priority).
No. The iteration (sprint) backlog is intended to be a list of things the team is currently working on. Prioritization should have already occurred.
UPDATE:
With TFS 2012.3 and higher, items that are in a "Committed" state stay on the backlog. You can re-prioritize them there, and it will be reflected in your Sprint backlog.
Have a look here
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2014/07/08/where-is-the-field-on-the-work-item-form-to-order-the-backlog/
You need to go to backlog items view and you can right click on an item to choose between "move to top" or "move to position.."