Querying Work Items by Tags

Work Item Tags are a great way to associate keywords to Work Items. These keywords act as metadata helping you group, search, and filter Work Items. In this recipe, you'll learn how to query Work Items by Tags.

Getting ready

All project valid user group members have permissions to create Tags. The stakeholder Access Level does not allow creation of Tags. Stakeholders can tag Work Items using pre-existing Tags only.

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has a backlog of Features that they want to tag by releasing a Feature that is forecasted to ship in. Features that are yet to be reviewed need to be tagged as Pending Review. The product owner wants to create a Work Item query for Work Items tagged for release 1 (exclude any ...

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