Track progress with status and trend query-based charts

• 01/19/2021
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You can quickly view the status of work in progress by charting the results of a flat-list query. Different chart views such as pie, column, pivot, or trend are supported. Charts support viewing a count of work items or a sum of values for select numeric fields, such as Story Points, Effort, or Remaining Work. Group work by State, Assigned To, or other system defined or custom field.

In this article you'll learn how to perform the following tasks:

Prerequisites

By default, users with Basic access or higher can create charts. Users with Stakeholder access can't view or create charts from the Queries page, however, they can view charts added to a team dashboard. For details, see About access levels.

To learn more about default groups, see Get started with permissions, Permission inheritance and security groups.

Create a flat-list query

When creating a query to support your chart, follow these guidelines.

• Always choose the Flat list of work items query type. Other query types aren't supported for charting. For more information, see Define a query, Define a flat-list query.
• Add those fields to either a query clause or the column options that you want to use within your chart. You can group charts by any field except date-time, free-form text, and tag fields. For example:
  • To group by Status, include the State field
  • To group by work assignments, include the Assigned To field
  • To group by sprints or iterations, include the Iteration Path
  • To group by team, include the Node Name field which displays the leaf node of the Area Path
  • To group by a custom field, include it.
• To sum a numeric column, include the corresponding field in your query clause or column options. For additional examples of charts created from numeric fields, see Query by a numeric field.
• If you plan to add your query to a dashboard, save your query as a Shared query.

Chart availability

• Charts saved under Shared Queries are viewable by all team members, except members with Stakeholder access, and can be added to dashboards.
• Charts that you create for queries under your My Queries folder are visible only to you.
• You can copy and email the URL of any chart page to share it with a project member.
• To create similar charts for tests, see Track your test results.

Display of areas and iterations

When you select Area Path or Iteration Path, only the leaf node appears in the chart. The leaf node is the last node of the full path. For example, Phone is the leaf node of FabrikamFiber/Fabrikam Website/Phone. If your query contains a mixed level of leaf nodes, your chart might not reflect expected results.

Choose the Node Name field, the area path leaf node, to see if that improves your results.

Charts display in browsers that support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This includes Edge, Internet Explorer 9 and later versions, Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Mac. Charts aren't optimized for mobile or touch displays.

Sort by Value or Label

Most charts allow you to choose how you want to sort the data.

• Value: Sorts data by the numeric value
• Label: Sorts by the label selected for grouping the data

Limited display of series

Create a query-based chart

1. From Queries, open the chart editor for a flat list query. You must belong to the Contributors group to create charts.

   

   

   If you have Stakeholder access, the Charts and New Chart links won't appear.

2. Select the chart type and field for grouping values. When you use pie, bar, and column charts, select a single field to view a count of work items.

   

   

   If you don't see the field you want in the Group by drop-down list, add the field as a column to the query and save the query. Also, the Aggregation options depend on the fields used in the query or those selected from the Column Options.

   If you receive an error message when you close the chart editor, you need to request Basic access.

3. To sort the results, choose Value or Label as the sort option and then Ascending or Descending.

   To change a color, simply choose a color from the Series set of color pickers.

   

   To change a color, simply choose a color on the chart and pick a new color from the color picker.

Charts automatically update when you edit the query or refresh the query results.

Add a Pie chart

Use a pie chart to show group percentages with six or fewer categories. Good examples of pie charts are:

• Active Bugs Status, group by State
• User Story Status, group by State
• User Story Progress, group by Completed, In Progress, or Cut

For example, the following query filters User Stories based on the State for Cut, In Progress, and Completed since the start of the year.

The pie chart configuration is as shown in the following image.

Add a Stacked bar chart

A stacked bar chart lets you track progress against two field values. Node Name will display the last leaf within an area path. Use this when you want to show data across teams, and each node corresponds to a team.

Add a Pivot table

The Pivot table displays a table of configurable rows and columns, with columns showing a count of work items or sum of a numeric field. Choose a Pivot table when you want to compare across areas the work being performed.

The following image shows an example of active bugs assigned to developers and their current state.

Add a Trend chart

Trend charts let you view progress over time. You can select a rolling period ranging from the last week to the last year (earlier versions of TFS may have limited selections).

Trend data is extracted from the work tracking data store. Like most data stores, the schema of the relational database is designed and optimized for the online transactional processing of data. As the tool or plug-in performs an activity, it writes the latest information to the operational store. Therefore, data in the operational store is constantly changing and being updated, and all data is current.

Add a Burndown chart

Burndown charts are useful for determining how quickly work is progressing based on a numeric field value, such as Story Points, Effort, or Remaining Work, or on a count of work items.

To create a burndown chart, make sure to add the numeric field you want to your query. To view a burndown chart of tasks, choose the Sum operator for Remaining Work.

Add chart to a dashboard

To add a chart to a dashboard, you must be a team administrator or have permissions to edit a dashboard (default settings). You can only add charts defined for shared queries.

Choose the actions icon for the chart you want to add, and select Add to dashboard.

To add other types of charts, such as test results and build summary charts, see Add widgets and chart to a dashboard.

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