Unassigned Checkbox on Queries
I have a query that I need some help understanding. It filters out all work items with a certain field, say field_a, that is empty. We use the 'Unassigned' checkbox and the 'is not' condition. All work items without any values in field_a are filtered. However several results come back with a value of 'Unassigned'. Adding a second condition of 'contains' and selecting 'Unassigned' then filters out the results with an unassigned value.
It seems like these conditions are contradicting each other. I would expect the first condition to work properly anyway. According to this Jazz article https://jazz.net/library/article/42 "The 'Unassigned' check box allows you to query for uninitialized or unset fields of a work item." So if it 'is not' 'unassigned' I would expect it to show up in the results. In other words if it was a value it should show up in the results. Yet it is display work items with 'unassigned' for the field. My question is why are there results with a value of 'Unassigned'? And the work items clearly don't have values assigned to the field. Thanks in advance, Derry |
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It sounds like somehow the attribute is sometimes getting the string value 'Unassigned'. But I don't know when that happens. There are a variety of settings that could be of interest. If you send me more information about which attributes and how they are being edited I may be able to narrow this down for you.
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