Commit 04d4208e authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add section on searching through the Backlog list

parent 1804f60f
......@@ -85,6 +85,24 @@ in the list's heading. A confirmation dialog will appear for you to confirm.
Deleting a list doesn't have any effect in issues and labels, it's just the
list view that is removed.
## Searching issues in the Backlog list
The very first time you start using the Issue Board, it is very likely your
issue tracker is already populated with labels and issues. In that case,
**Backlog** will have all the issues that don't belong to another list, and
**Done** will have all the closed ones.
For performance and visibility reasons, each list shows the first 20 issues
by default. If you have more than 20, you have to start scrolling down for the
next 20 issues to appear. This can be cumbersome if your issue tracker hosts
hundreds of issues, and for that reason it is easier to search for issues to
move from **Backlog** to another list.
Start typing in the search bar under the **Backlog** list and the relevant
issues will appear.
![Issue Board search Backlog](img/issue_board_search_backlog.png)
## Filtering issues
You should be able to use the filters on top of your Issue Board to show only
......@@ -141,6 +159,9 @@ A few things to remember:
- Clicking on a label inside a card will quickly filter the entire Issue Board
and show only the issues from all lists that have that label.
- Issues inside lists are [ordered by priority](labels.md#prioritize-labels).
- For performance and visibility reasons, each list shows the first 20 issues
by default. If you have more than 20 issues start scrolling down and the next
20 will appear.
[ce-5554]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5554
[labels]: ./labels.md
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