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How to query user stories with no children???


Phil Adams (1367) | asked Jan 29 '09, 12:57 p.m.
When creating a work-item query in RTC, is there a way to select only stories that do NOT have any children of type "story"? If so, then it would be useful since these "leaf-level" user stories represent the iteration-level stories that we need to consider in iteration planning. I realize we also need to consider the higher-level stories (epics) but at least one view of the backlog would be to look only at the highest-priority iteration-level user stories and pull from those and assign them to the scrum teams.
Any ideas on how to select only "leaf-level" stories?

Thanks,
Phil

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Jessica Mack (6) | answered Jan 29 '09, 3:37 p.m.
I have a similar problem where I want to query stories with no Parents to get the highest level (epic) stories. I wanted to create a query that would find items of type story with parents that do not exist, but there is no way that I can find to negate an add condition. Shouldn't there be a way to say "this, that, but not that" in the query builder instead of just AND and OR?

Thanks.

Jessica

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Patrick Streule (4.9k21) | answered Feb 03 '09, 4:18 a.m.
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I have a similar problem where I want to query stories with no Parents
to get the highest level (epic) stories. I wanted to create a query
that would find items of type story with parents that do not exist,
but there is no way that I can find to negate an add condition.
Shouldn't there be a way to say "this, that, but not that"
in the query builder instead of just AND and OR?

You are hitting a current restriction. Please subscribe to
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/59469
which describes the problem.

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Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team

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