Searching for Work Items

If you have a large number of work items in your work item list, you can use the search feature to search for a specific work item. For example, you could select a column indicator of State and enter OPENED to search for all work items in your list with a status of OPENED.

You must select the Use Page (Search) Filter property in the Grid Setting () to enable this search.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Search box.
  2. Use the Up and Down arrows to select a column indicator to search on from the drop-down list. You can search on all the work item columns. See Work Item Columns for more information.
  3. Press Tab to move to the next box. Use the Up and down arrows to select an operator that is appropriate for your search. You can select one of the following:
    Option Description
    Contains Matches if a specified column contains the search text value (case is ignored).
    Contains (case sensitive) Matches if a specified column contains the search text value (case sensitive).
    Exact match Matches if a specified column exactly matches the search text value (case is ignored)
    Exact match (case sensitive) Matches if a specified column exactly matches the search text value (case sensitive)
  4. Press Tab to move to the next box. Type the search criteria you want to search for.
  5. Press Tab to The search icon is a magnifying glass and press Enter. Fields that match the search criteria are highlighted. Use the Tab key to move between highlighted fields.
  6. Pressing Escape or Enter on the Clear Search icon (The icon is a black magnifying glass with a line through it)returns you to your normal view.