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How to: Find Obsolete Work Items

The queries that that are included with Team Foundation Server automatically exclude obsolete work items. If you must find a work item that has been tagged as obsolete, you must change the query to include them.

Required Permissions

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Readers group or have the View work items in this node permission set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To create a work item query to find obsolete work items

  1. Open your team project, select the Work Items node, and then select My Queries.

  2. On the Team menu, click Add Query.

    A new query opens.

  3. Select Click here to add a clause to add a new clause, and add the following clause.

    And/Or

    Field

    Operator

    Value

    And

    Reason

    =

    Obsolete

  4. Add other clauses as is required to refine your search.

  5. On the query toolbar, click Run Query to run the query.

  6. You may optionally also want to save the query. For more information, see How to: Save Work Item Queries.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Make a Work Item Obsolete

How to: Run Work Item Queries

How to: Save Work Item Queries

How to: Add, Remove, and Sort Columns in Query Results

Concepts

Working With Work Item Queries