Searching for a Milestone

[Sheila Olds]

We had a teammate report this morning that they are unable to search for a milestone in the "Search all work items" search box in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  I am still waiting to hear if she was ever able to do this, but I wanted to ask here first.  Was it ever possible to search for a milestone in that section?  I have never tried, but looking at it today, it looks like it is clearly for work items only.

Thank you!

[Sagi Gabay]

Hi Sheila,

Timeboxes are not included in the global search, that includes milestones, releases and iterations. The global search only searches work items and timeboxes aren't considered work item. From a technical standpoint all objects that inherit from 'Artifact' (if you know that WSAPI object) are searchable, that will include all the work items. However, timeboxes aren't inheriting from this object and so excluded.

Of course you're welcome to use the megaphone icon and post an enhancement request for this.

I hope this helps. 

Thanks,
Sagi

[Sheila Olds]

Hi Sagi! I had a feeling that was the case, but I wasn't sure if it ever allowed milestones and I never tried or noticed that the box was specific to Work Items.  Thanks so much for your help, I'll let the user know.

[Sheila Olds]

OK, she just told me she was able to search for a milestone there in the past.  I'll dig into that more.

[Sheila Olds]

Last update:  She was on the timebox page, but using the search in the upper right vs. the search under the "Timebox" word.  All set now!

[Stephanie Goodson]

You are absolutely correct you cannot search for milestone like you can search for user story.  There are 3 options for milestone search: 

1. Access Rally API documentation (under Help menu) and scroll for Milestones under Object Model. Next, click the Milestone hyperlink. In the Query string text box enter the following ("FormattedID = "MI1234") and click fetch full objects AND beautified JSON output. This query will produce a count of projects and count of artifacts. Please click projects hyperlink to see the projects associated with the milestones. Please click the artifacts hyperlink to see the specific artifacts. You must scroll the file to see specific projects and/or artifacts. Look for _refObjectName: for Artifact Name or Project Name.  FormattedID will populate the Artifact ID.
2. Using the Rally Excel Add-In which supports Office 365 & Mac, you can export data. Specifically, you can generate a query on Milestone Type where ID = MI1234.  Rally Excel Add-In will populate the query - (ID = "MI1234). However, this query will give you summary counts only. So, count of projects associated with  milestone not the individual project names like Rally API
3. You can add Custom HTML to your dashboard or Custom Page. Please paste code from this link in the HTML text box and click Save. Here's the link -  https://github.com/davidledeaux/MilestoneSearch/blob/master/deploy/App.html  You can either scroll thru the list to find the milestone or create advanced filter where ID = milestone id

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