Select workitem window (the one used to associate a workitem to a changeset): which workitem in the list if I use * character?
If the customer use the star character (*) into the filter field in the "select workitem" window, which workitems will be selected? Is the * considered a special character or it is searched inside the work item?
It seems the list is composed arbitrary using this kind of search character, * is often considered a special character and the user expectation is to have all the WI listed into the window. thanks |
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Typing '*' will select all the work items. If there are too many, they would be paginated. If you are not seeing them all, you may have other filters turned on, like - Type of work item, Assigned to me only, Do not include resolved etc. Also, work items are selected from your project area, not all project areas in repository.
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Comments Hi Surya,
'Paginated' means, that the result will be displayed over several pages. To see the next set, you will need to go to next page. It is not available in Eclipse client. The WI view in Eclipse will display only 1000 (by default) work items. The 'Select Work Items' dialog, that you see while selecting a work item to associate with a change set, will display fewer work items and there is no pagination. Only web client has pagination. In real life, when you are working in Eclipse client, you do not want to go over 1000 work items. You may just want to know how many work items are there meeting your query (* in this case) and the client will tell you that. It is advisable that you define queries and filter work items appropriately so that the list is small enough for you to work with. The most common use case of 'Select work items' dialog is to select a work item assigned to you. Also, the idea behind setting this limit is that you would not want to stress the server by running queries that will return all the work items. BTW, this limit is a server property which you can change.
Surya Tripathi
commented Aug 07 '13, 6:19 p.m.
Here is how you can change the maximum query result size-
Ok Surya, thanks for your explanation, very clear.
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