Dashboard widets in Azure Devops

Hi @Tamara Mitchell ,

Tag filters in the sprint widgets are driven off the Analytics snapshot

• Analytics takes a daily snapshot of work items and the tags they had on that day.
• If you applied a tag after the snapshot for your sprint started, it won’t show up until the next snapshot.
• This is why tags sometimes just aren’t in the dropdown Analytics never saw them during that sprint.

Two ways to work around it:

1. Apply tags before the sprint begins (or re-assign them on the day the sprint starts) so Analytics picks them up.
2. Switch to a query-based chart instead of the built-in sprint widget:

• Go to Boards =>Queries =>New Query

‑ Work Item Type = User Story  
‑ State (filter as you need)  
‑ Tags Contains = “TagA” OR Tags Contains = “TagB” 

• Click Charts =>New chart

‑ Chart type: Column/Stacked Column  
‑ X-axis: Iteration Path (your sprint)  
‑ Y-axis: Count of Work Items  

• Save the chart and then on your dashboard Add Widget => “Chart for Work Items” =>select that query/chart.

That query-chart approach doesn’t rely on the sprint-widget tag dropdown it simply runs a work‐item query at refresh time, groups by sprint, and shows all your tagged stories.

Hope this helps!

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