Hey folks--
I spent a bunch of time trying to search the forums for this but it did not prove to be fruitful.
I am a new user to TFS and my previous system had an amazing search capability. Now I understand I can build awesomely powerful queries using the query editor. I do this already. The problem I am facing, however, deals with ad-hoc queries. I am constantly searching for items due to my role in my development team. I cannot be stuck into the Query Editor UI whenever I am looking for something because I am changing the fields all the time.
My questions are as follow:
- Why do I have to search system.areapath:text while I can search title:text instead of system.title:text?
- Is there a backend change that can be made such that I only have to search areapath:text?
This is a problem as whether or not the prefix is required seems to be random. To make matters worse, some of the prefixes are totally ridiculous.
For example, if I want to find items whose RequirementType is Customer, I cannot search requirementtype:customer. I have to searchMicrosoft.VSTS.CMMI.RequirementType:customer. The only way I even figured these things out was to build some queries, run them with Fiddler open, and look at the SQL statement.
I apologize if I missed some MSDN article or something here but I have been fighting this for weeks and really need a way to solve this.
Thanks,
newTfsUser