Group the Summary by Area path

Version 2.0.44 · All release notes

A small addition to the Time Log Summary for teams whose work is organised by area rather than by project: Area path joins the list of grouping levels. There’s nothing you need to do — it’s there the next time you open the page.

🗺 Group the Summary by Area path

Area path is now one of the levels you can tick and drag into your Summary grouping, alongside User, Project, Parent, Work Item, Type and Iteration. It suits organisations that split their work by team or product area, where the area says more about who did the work than the project does.

Area path rows show the area without the project in front of it — Project is a level of its own, so there’s no need to repeat it — and the whole area is shown rather than just its last part, so two teams with a similarly named area stay clearly apart. Rows follow the area itself rather than its name, so an area that is renamed or moved part-way through the period you’re looking at still adds up to a single row.

Full change list

2.0.44

Time Log Summary: add Area path as a grouping level, for organisations that split their work by team or product area. Area path rows show the work item’s area with the project prefix dropped, since Project is a level of its own, and group on the area itself rather than its name, so an area that is renamed or moved during the period stays as one row.