needfilter

Deprecated since version 0.2.0.

Note

Deprecated! Please use the more powerful directives needlist, needtable or needflow instead of needfilter. needfilter will be removed with version 1.0.0!

Example:

.. needfilter::
   :status: open;in_progress
   :tags: user; login
   :types: req;Specification
   :filter: "my_tag" in tags and ("another_tag" in tags or "closed" in status)
   :show_status:
   :show_tags:
   :show_filters:
   :show_legend:
   :sort_by: id
   :layout: list

This prints a list with all found needs, which match the filters for status, tags and types.

For :status:, :tags: and :types: values are separated by “;”. :filter: gets evaluated.

The logic, if a need belongs to the needfilter result list, is as followed:

status = (open OR in_progress) AND tags = (user OR login) AND types = (req OR spec) AND eval(filter) is True

For :types: the type itself and the human-readable type_title can be used as filter value.

If :show_status: / :show_tags: is given, the related information will be shown after the name of the need.

To show the used filters under a list, set :show_filters:

:show_legend: is supported only by :layout:diagram. It adds a legend with colors to the generated diagram.

The showed list is unsorted as long as the parameter :sort_by: is not used. Valid options for :sort_by: are id and status.

Note

Please read the common filter page Filtering needs for more detailed information about filter possibilities.

:layout:

Three different types of layouts are available:

• list (default)
• table
• diagram

Only list supports each needfilter option.

table and diagram are supporting the filter options only (status, tags, types, filter) and their design is somehow fix.

diagram

Diagrams are available only, if the sphinx extension sphinxcontrib-plantuml is installed, activated and has a working configuration.

If the configured output is svg, the diagram elements are linked to the location of their definition.