A bit of TFS training: Sorting in Work Items Tracking
by Olga Belokurskaya
Hi!
I thought, why don’t have some TFS training today, as I found some information in the blog by Buck Hodges which I think may be useful for someone. So today’s tip is about TFS work item tracking, explaining the sorting by more than one column.
Sorting by multiple columns is a work item tracking feature many are not acquainted with, however it exists for quite a long time in Team Explorer and Team System Web Access. You’ll be surprised, how simple it is, while using it may save some amount of time. So, here’s the recipe:
- - Holding Shift button click the headers of columns you’d like to sort.
- To change sorting order from descending to ascending, for example, still holding Shift click the header again to flip the sort ordering.
The screenshot shows the sorting first by Priority and then by Area Level 4:

The only thing to add is that the feature works in TFS 2008/2008 SP1.




