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View, run, or email a work item query

TFS 2017 | TFS 2015 | TFS 2013

Visual Studio 2019 | Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2015 | Visual Studio 2013

To find work items assigned to you or your team, run a query. Many work item queries are predefined with your process. Members of your team may have created shared queries that you can view and run. Often, it's easier to define a new query by building on the query definition that's already available to you.

Prerequisites

  • By default, all project members and users with Stakeholder access can view and run all shared queries. You can change the permissions set for a shared query folder or shared query. For details, see Set query permissions.
  • To add and save a query under Shared queries, you must be granted Basic access or higher. Also, you must have your Contribute permission set to Allow for the folder you want to add the query to. By default, the Contributors group doesn't have this permission.

Open Queries

From your web browser, open Boards>Queries.

From your web browser, open Boards>Queries

Run a query in Azure Boards

To run any query, expand a folder and choose the title of the query. The view opens to display the query Results.

Tip

The Queries page, as with other web portal pages, remembers the view you last navigated to and returns you to that view.

Query folders

Note

You can't add folders to My Favorites or Team Favorites.

The Queries page displays the folder structure in the left pane. You can expand and collapse folders, rename folders, and drag and drop queries from one folder to another. To learn more, see Manage and organize queries.

Screenshot of Queries page, TFS 2018 and earlier versions.

For more information, see Query FAQs, Navigate, and Folders.

Email query items or share a query URL

From the Query Editor or Results view, you can email a formatted list of query items or copy the query URL.

Choose Copy query URL. To email query items, see Copy a list of work items.

Web portal, Query Editor/Results, Copy query URL

Note

With Email query, the system will email the formatted list to those teammates you select. To email a formatted list to people not part of the project, you'll need to use the Copy as HTML option described in Copy a list of work items. All email actions require an SMTP server to be configured. If you don't have an SMTP server configured, you can work around this by using Copy as HTML.

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