Managing work items in My Work view

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:
  1. Click Window > Show View > Other > Work Items > My Work.
  2. The first time you add the view, click the link to Select a project area. Select a project and click OK.
  3. Use the drop-down menu View menu in My Work view to select a different project area and configure other settings and preferences for the view.
  4. To add a color code to work items in this view based on attribute values, from the drop-down menuView menu select Settings > Colorize . 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 view

The following features are common to the Inbox, Current Work, and Future Work sections:

The following features are common to the Current Work and Future Work sections:

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 View menu and clear the Automatically Save Changes option.


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