Question

I'm trying to figure out how to filter my issues to show me everything I need to do between now and milestone v1.0 for a particular project.

Of course, if I sort by milestone, I can just stop reading after v1.0, but what I'd REALLY like is to watch the list get shorter & shorter as we get closer to that milestone. :)

We've chosen NOT to make post-v1.0 into a separate project, because it's also highly useful to be able to see all the issues for a particular product (for our FogBguz, product = project -- does FB make a distinction, there?), I'd just like to be able to switch between "all open issues for this product" and "all open issues up to milestone X, but not after, for this product."

Filtering on "Due date" did something completely unexpected: showed nothing. I imagine it's because we don't use the due field, and FB somehow doesn't consider "needs to happen by this milestone" to be the same as "due by this date."

Anyway... can you offer hints about how I can get the filtering I want?

Case FC2051292

Answer 1

If you name your milestones well, you can do it by searching for a common substring. On Kiln our milestones look like this:

Kiln 1.0 Beta 1
Kiln 1.0 Beta 2
Kiln 1.0 Beta 3
...
Kiln 1.0

So if I want to see everything that still needs to be done for the Kiln 1.0 launch, I can do this search:

status:"active" project:"kiln" milestone:"1.0" orderby:"milestone"

If I just want to see what's left for the beta:

status:"active" project:"kiln" milestone:"1.0 beta" orderby:"milestone"

Answer 2

there may be other ways to do this but if it were me I'd add a search to the filter to ignore milestones after 1.0.

Search for: -milestone:v1.1 -milestone:v2