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Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER (2.4k●13●18) Jul 31 '12, 4:25 p.m.
I'm trying to create a (web UI) task board that shows a specific set of stories and work items. The WIs all have the same iteration (which is shared with many other work items), but a unique tag, and a unique parent/ancestor hierarchy. They do not share a work item category.

How do I create a task board that only shows those work items? 

I've been experimenting on this view. I only want to see the descendants of WI 218177. 

I've tried applying filters to the view config but those work with varying degrees of success.

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Guido Schneider
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Aug 01 '12, 6:05 p.m.
Try with an expression filter on tags: you can do a NOT in front of the filter.
E.g. "!tags:scm". This filters out all workitems without the SCM tag. You can also use multiple tags in the expression. Just separate the expressions with space.


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Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER Aug 01 '12, 10:07 a.m.

The WIs that I want to see are tagged with 'scmrun401candidate'.

If I set the quick filter to be "!tag:scmrun401candidate" all items are removed from the task board. I see the same behaviour if I remove the '!'.

When I set the view's config to '!tag:scmrun401candidate' or 'tag:scmrun401candidate' all work items appear to be shown.

I've raised bug 219840 and bug 219836.

Andrew Codrington
Aug 01 '12, 11:47 a.m.

Is this as simple as a typo? eg tags vs tag

I'm using 3.0.1.2 and I can get Colors to work on WIs by using tags:mytagname, not tag:mytagname as you've shown above.

The ! operator also works as expected (!tags:mytagname).

Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER Aug 01 '12, 4:16 p.m.

My mistake! With the full 'tags' keyword it works as expected! Damn! I spent 3 hours trying to get this stuff to work, and all because of a stupid typo.

I'll close those work items.

Guido Schneider
Aug 01 '12, 6:06 p.m.

Sorry Evan for my typo in my answer. I have corrected it for all followers.

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Henning Sternkicker
JAZZ DEVELOPER (406●2●6) Aug 01 '12, 3:18 a.m.
Have you tried to use the Display option "Group" instead? You can use the group option on tags, this will result in a taskboard that is devided into groups regarding their tags. That means, if your work items all have the same tags, they will appear in the same group.

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Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER Aug 01 '12, 10:56 a.m.

This works, although I have to reorder my tags to put the tag I care about at the front of the tag list. I've raised bug 219853 about that.

Thanks!

Guido Schneider
Aug 01 '12, 6:07 p.m.

As much as I know the Group on tag is based on the "primary tag". This is the first tag in the list. All others are secondary tags.

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Dinesh Kumar B
JAZZ DEVELOPER (4.1k●4●13) Jul 31 '12, 4:45 p.m.
filter is the one which can pull out the specific tagged workitems. 

however in plan views, I understand that the way filter works is the exact opposite of what you are looking for.. applying a filter saying filter : tags:scm will show you all workitems which do not have the tag scm by filtering out the "scm" "tagged" workitems..

so a not so neat way of getting it to work is to apply tags filter on all other tags available for you.  however when a new tag gets added, this view needs modification on its filters.. not very neat as i said earlier..

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