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Saved views and the filter language

How to filter, group and save issue views with the keyboard in the Overlane web app, and what the filter box understands.

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A saved view is a filter, a grouping and a sort over any issue field. The page and the service mean the same thing by it, so a view you save in the app is the one the API runs. The fields and the order are described in Issues, projects and views.

Filter from the keyboard

Press f or / on the Issues view to focus the filter box. Type words to match titles, and field:value to match a field:

status:todo,in_progress -priority:P3 label:Backend no:assignee estimate:>=3 retry
Part Meaning
status:todo,in_progress The status is one of these. A comma means “or”.
-priority:P3 A leading - means “not”.
label:Backend A label or project name is looked up for you.
assignee:me me means you.
no:assignee The field is empty.
estimate:>=3 Compare with >, >=, < or <=.
retry Any word that is not field:value must appear in the title.

Short names work: s for status, p for priority, a for assignee and l for label. A token that looks like a field but is not understood is shown as unknown rather than ignored silently.

Group and save

Press b to group by the next field. You can group by status, priority, assignee type, assignee, label, project, cycle or source. Press s to save the current filter and grouping as a named view; saved views are listed with the view picker and can be deleted by members and above.

From the palette

Every one of these is also a palette command (Ctrl+K, then type “filter” or “group”), so a view can be driven without remembering a key. See Keyboard shortcuts and the command palette.

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