How can I show all work items in azure devops work items screen

Question

So by default when I go into my azure devops work items for particular project it has around 7 pre-defined options shown in image below, for example recently created shows last 30 days. I find it really frustrating that there is no option to view all work items in here, as i would be nice to be able to search first and make sure duplicate items don't get logged. I have did some searching and the only work around seems to be to create a query which is a bit cumbersome.

Surely there is another way to achieve this in the work items screen ? Thanks for any help

Answer 1

How can I show all work items in azure devops work items screen

Sorry for any inconvenience.

This behavior is by designed. There is no way to fix it at present.

As we know, those 7 pre-defined options use the cache mechanism, which will keep the last option used last.

Just like the last time we used the option Assigned to me, then the next time we click on Work items, it will show Assigned to me by default. This can bring us convenience according to our usage habits.

So, if we add the option for All Work items in the Work items screen, this will greatly increase the burden of Azure devops and make the response of Azure devops slow or even crash. That because work items serve the entire org, usually all work items will be a large number.

To get the all Work items, we have to create a query and save this query, you just need to run that query when you check the duplicate items instead of creating it every time.

Hope this helps.