We have an organization within Azure DevOps and many projects within. I have started to tag projects. I'd like to be able to search tags and list the projects that have that specific tag in the project details.
I've found how to search for all the work items with a specific tag, but is there a way to search for projects specifically?
Navigate to the home screen of VSTS (https://your-organization.visualstudio.com/_projects)
From there, type in the tag you'd like to search in the "Search code in this organization"
You will be redirected to a page with three tabs: code, tags, and wiki
Click on the tags tab and every work item, regardless of project, will show up in a list for you to view.
From there, you should see a drop down on the far left with all the projects that include that tag, with the ability to toggle view on/off based on which projects you'd like to see in view.
Hope this helps!
Create area paths that represent the workstreams you'll ultimately want to sort against. In this way you'll be able to look at a particular path, which will show all projects within.
The Azure DevOps extension Tags Manager may work for your needs. Docs declare you can perform the following operations with each Azure Devops Project:
If you don't want to install this extension into your Azure Devops instance, another alternative is the Visual Studio extension Tag Admin for Visual Studio 2017.
It is possible but its not particularly nice.
The project tags are actually just project properties and these can be accessed via Azure DevOps Services REST API1.
They have a property 'path' of:
/Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Project.Tag.YourTag
YourTag is tag as it appears, e.g. Owned By: Sebastian Rogers, and yes it can use punctuation and spaces.
So to get all the tags on a project you need to use the REST API directly and interpret the results:
curl -u USERNAME:PAT https://dev.azure.com/ORGANISATION_NAME/_apis/projects/PROJECT_ID/properties
where
this will give you something like this
{
"count": 15,
"value": [...
{
"name": "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Project.Tag.CLI: Added",
"value": "true"
}
]
}
you can set tags as follows:
curl -u USERNAME:PAT -X PATCH -H 'Content-Type: application/json-patch+json' https://dev.azure.com/ORGANISATION_NAME/_apis/projects/PROJECT_ID/properties?api-version=7.1-preview.1 -d '[{"op": "add", "path": "/Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Project.Tag.CLI: Added", "value": "true"}]'
you can also remove them
curl -u USERNAME:PAT -X PATCH -H 'Content-Type: application/json-patch+json' https://dev.azure.com/ORGANISATION_NAME/_apis/projects/PROJECT_ID/properties?api-version=7.1-preview.1 -d '[{"op": "remove", "path": "/Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Project.Tag.CLI: Added"}]'
So the tools exist to do it
