You can quickly assess your work load using My Work view.
You can view newly assigned work items and work items for current
and future iterations. You can assess your current work load and change
the order, priority, and other properties for your work items. Double-click
work items to open them in the work item editor.
About this task
To add the My Work view:
- Click .
- The first time you add the view, click the link to Select
a project area. Select a project and click OK.
- Use the drop-down menu
in My Work view to
select a different project area and configure other settings and preferences
for the view.
- To add a color code to work items in this view based on
attribute values, from the drop-down menu
select . In the Expression field, use
the syntax described in Table 1 to
specify attribute values for the colors.
What to do next
Common features in My Work viewThe following features
are common to the Inbox, Current Work, and Future
Work sections:
- Double-click a work item in a section to open it in the work item
editor.
- Right-click a work item for more options.
- To modify a work item property, such as priority and duration,
click the property icon.
- Entries with unsaved changes are marked with an asterisk. To save
your changes to a work item, in the My Work toolbar, click the Save icon
.
- Press Ctrl+F to find, filter, and colorize work items.
The following features are common to the Current Work and Future
Work sections:
- Alerts are displayed to left of a work item entry; for example,
an alert is shown if the work item's estimated completion falls beyond
its due date. For more information, hover on the alert .
- To display a table of the work item's details, right-click a work
item and click Show Details.
- To display the latest changes to the work item, right-click a
work item and click Show Recent News.
- To display the corrected estimate and time spent for the work
item, right-click a work item and click Show Work Time.
Click the icons for these attributes to change the values. You can
also expand or collapse a work item by selecting it and pressing Alt+Right
Arrow.
- To organize work items by the color coding specified in the Colorize settings
for the view, use the drop-down menu
in a section and click Group By Color.
- To rank work items in the preferred order, drag and drop the work
items.
The My Work view saves changes to work items in the view after
a brief period of inactivity in the work item. This automatic save
operation does not occur if the work item is being edited in another
view. To disable this feature, click the drop-down menu for this view
and clear the Automatically Save Changes option.