Sign in to your organization: https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}.
Select Organization settings.
Select Boards, and then Work items.
Enter your search.
Choose Work > Work Items, enter a keyword or phrase in the search box, and press Enter or choose start search.
Search results are displayed in a snippet view where the matches found are shown in bold.
This is a full text search that uses simple search strings for words or phrases.
Work item search matches derived forms of your search terms; for example, a search for
"updating" also finds instances of the word "updated" and "update". Note that searches are not case-sensitive.
Select a snippet of a work item to display it in the right window.
Open the search results in a new browser tab from a search box by
pressing Ctrl + Enter or by holding Ctrl and selecting
start search.
In Google Chrome, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to switch the focus
to the new browser tab.
Fine-tune your search
Fine tune your search by specifying the fields to search. Enter a: and a user name
to search for all items assigned to that user.
The quick filters you can use are:
a: for Assigned to:
c: for Created by:
s: for State
t: for Work item type
Start to enter the name of a field in your work items; for example, enter ta.
The dropdown list shows work item field name suggestions
that match user input thereby helping the user to complete the search faster. For example, a search such as
tags:Critical finds all work items tagged 'Critical'.
Add more filters to further narrow your search, and use Boolean operators
to combine terms if required. For example,
a: Chris t: Bug s: Active finds all active bugs assigned
to a user named Chris.
Narrow your search to specific types
and states, by using the drop-down selector lists at the upper portion of the results page.
Organization settings.
start search.
