Keyboard Shortcuts for the Query Editor and Query Results View (TEE)

You can use the following icons and keyboard shortcuts to navigate within the query editor or query results view.

In this topic

• Navigating within the Query Editor

• Navigating within the Query Results List

• Display Results When You Have No Permission to View a Work Item

Required Permissions

To use the query editor and view work items, you must be a member of the Readers group, or your View work items in this node permission must be set to Allow. To modify a work item, you must be a member of the Contributors group or your View work items in this node and Edit work items in this node permissions must be set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

Navigating within the Query Editor

Result	Key or action
Move the focus up or down.	UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW
Move the focus left or right.	RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW
Move the focus down.	ENTER
Move the focus to the right, one field at a time.	TAB
Move the focus to the left, one field at a time.	SHIFT+TAB
Copy the selected clause.	CTRL+C
Save changes made to the query or work items in the query results list.	CTRL+S
Paste the copied clause, and overwrite the selected clause.	CTRL+V
Move the focus to the end of the current clause.	END
Delete the contents of the current field or the selected clause.	DELETE
Highlight consecutive clauses.	SHIFT+UP ARROW or SHIFT+DOWN ARROW

Navigating within the Query Results List

You can use most of the shortcuts in the following table wherever you have a list of work items, such as the query results view or a list of linked work items within a work item form.

Result	Key or action
Highlight a row.	Click the row
Highlight consecutive rows.	SHIFT+UP ARROW or SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
Save changes made to the query or work items in the query results list.	CTRL+S
Sort the list by the values of a column, toggling between ascending and descending. The up-chevron indicates an ascending sort, and the down-chevron indicates a descending sort. Note You can also sort by multiple columns. For more information, see Add, Remove, Reorder, and Sort Columns (Team Explorer Everywhere).	Click a column heading
Resize a column.	Drag an edge of a column header
Highlight the previous row or the next row.	UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW
Scroll right or left.	RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW
Scroll up or down a page of results at a time.	PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN
Highlight the first row or the last row.	HOME or END
Open the selected work item.	ENTER

Display Results When You Have No Permission to View a Work Item

When query results contain a work item that you do not have required permissions to view, the cells of that work item are blank, except that the work item ID appears, and the title cell indicates <<no access>>.

When you sort a work item list that contains no-access rows, those rows sort as if their cells were blank. For example, if you sort by State, each no-access row appears at the top of the list. This rule applies to the Title field also. If you sorted by Title, no-access rows appear at the top of the list even though the title appears as <<no access>>. The exception to this rule is that, if you sort by work item ID, no-access rows appear in the expected sequence.

See Also

Tasks

Add, Remove, Reorder, and Sort Columns (Team Explorer Everywhere)

Other Resources

Finding Bugs, Tasks, and Other Work Items (Team Explorer Everywhere)

Finding Bugs, Tasks, and Other Work Items