Question

We are using the agile template, and have user story’s with linked tasks.

Some user stories assigned to me and some tasks, for users stories, are assigned to me.

What I’m trying to get is all work items that are assigned to me, or work items where a linked work item is assigned to me in a tree of work items view (not flat list)

So right now I have:

any work item in this project and iteration (not closed\resolved, and not a bug)

AND

 any linked work items assigned to me (not closed\resolved)

But this returns user stories, where I don’t have tasks assigned to me. But if I change the first part of the query to be filter out items not assigned to me the ‘Tree of Work Items’ is not show for where I only have tasks.

The output I would like would exclude user stories where I don’t have tasks, and include users stories where I do… something like this:

User Story 1 –> team member A

—->Task 1a –> me

User Story 2 –> me

—> Task 2a –> team member B

Any ideas what the query would be?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you want is not possible in one single query. The filter you do on the parent and on the child will be combined to an “AND” filter operation.

To get only the parents for which you have tasks, choose the query type “Work Items and Direct Links” and in the child section add a filter on “assigned to = @me” and select the option “Only return items that have specified links”.