Custom Sort Order for TFS Fields
At the moment is very difficult to get a good sort order for any field that is not-numerical. Give me the ability, either when I create a field, or when I create a query, to set a custom sort order.
This comes up all the time. But here are two examples.
Status: I have New, Active, Closed. I'd like to have the sort order match the chronology of the workflow, but all I can get is alphabetical.
Stack Rank: We use stack rank to organize the most pressing work item, but don't apply it to all items in our backlog. However, when i sort on this field ascending items that don’t have any rank at all are always put first. I need them on the bottom.
John SB
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Demitrius Nelon
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I implemented a painful work around by adding a WITStateSortOrder field and using the copy action WHEN the state changes to achieve this.
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Visual Studio ALM Team
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Great feedback. This has long been a request by our customers. Thanks for submitting.
Gregg Boer - MSFT / TFS Product Group
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Paul
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whoops ... cut-n-paste this twice:
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Thanks for the idea, John. A note about the stack rank scenario: we changed the sort order behavior for numbers in the next version of the product to take into account this scenario. Now, blank values are sorted at the end of the list rather than the front.
Jon Tsao, Program Manager, Team Foundation Server
