Flat queries
A flat query list of work items is used when you want to perform the following tasks:
- Finding a work item with an unknown ID
- Checking the status or other columns of work items
- Finding work items that you want to link to other work items
- Exporting work items to Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, and Office Project for bulk updates to column fields
- Generating a report about a set of work items
As a general practice, to easily find work items, a team member can create Shared Queries, which are predefined queries shared across the team. They can be created, modified, and saved as a new query too.
The following steps demonstrate how to open a flat query list and create a new query list:
- In the team project web portal, expand Shared Query List located on the left-hand side and click on the My Tasks query, as shown in the following screenshot:
- The resulting work items generated by the My Tasks query will be shown in the Work item pane, as shown in the following screenshot:
- As there are now...
