See the whole slice in one table. A Boards hub built around WIQL, filters, and your columns.

Vorsam Backlog Board is an Azure Boards hub that loads work items for the current project with a flat WIQL query, then lets you filter client-side, show or hide columns, reorder and resize the table, and tune chip colors for work item type, state, priority, and tags—without leaving Boards.

Click any row to open that work item in native Azure DevOps (typically a new browser tab). The hub is read-only: it does not create or edit work items; it helps you scan, slice, and jump into the items you care about.

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It is designed for teams that already live in Azure Boards and want a dense, configurable backlog view on top of the same REST data you trust—no separate backend, no surprise writes.

Stop re-triaging the same backlog in five different views

Grooming and triage mean the same fields over and over: who owns it, where it sits in the sprint, what changed last week. This hub gives you a single wide table with fast filters (title, IDs, assignee, creator, type, state, priority, sprint, story points, remaining work, tags, and relative date windows), plus column visibility and persisted layout in the browser so the board matches your ritual—not a fixed grid.

What you get

• Project-scoped WIQL — Work items for the project you are in, loaded in pages; scroll near the bottom to fetch more when Azure DevOps has additional matches.
• Native Azure DevOps — Runs as a Boards hub contribution; data comes from your project via Azure DevOps APIs only.
• Filters that stack — Narrow by people, process fields, iteration, numeric ranges, tags, and date ranges; clear all in one action when you want a fresh pass.
• Your table, your rules — Toggle columns, drag to reorder headers, drag column edges to resize—choices can persist in this browser.
• Readable chips — Optional colors for type, state, priority, and tag chips (and matching filter chips), saved locally so recurring values stay recognizable.
• Free extension — Install from the Marketplace at no charge; usage is ordinary Boards traffic to your organization.

See the hub—five steps

The walkthrough below mirrors the real hub: scroll to load more → tune columns → show filters and fields → color chips → use the board menu. All five steps use animated GIFs.

1 — Scroll the table, load more work items

The hub loads work items in pages (newest change first). Scroll toward the bottom of the table and the next slice appears automatically—so you can keep walking the backlog without leaving the hub.

2 — Columns: show, reorder, resize

Open Columns from the board menu to toggle which fields you see. Drag headers to reorder columns and drag the right edge of a header to resize—layout preferences can stay in this browser for the next visit.

3 — Filters: show the strip, pick fields, narrow rows

Use Show filters / Hide filters to open the filter strip. Use the chevron beside that row to choose which filter inputs appear. Stack text, pickers, ranges, and date windows—then read the “showing X of Y” line to see how much of the loaded set still matches.

4 — Settings: backlog chip colors

Open Settings to assign colors to work item type, state, priority, and tag chips (and matching chips in the filter bar). Values you have customized stay listed even when a type or tag is not in the current page—Reset all chip colors clears only those choices.

5 — Board menu: refresh, columns, settings, filters

The ⋮ menu keeps Refresh, Columns, Settings, and Show filters / Hide filters in one place—compact for narrow Boards iframes while still exposing the full workflow.

How you’ll use it—four moves

1. Install at organization or project scope.
2. Open Boards → Vorsam Backlog Board in the work hub group.
3. Open the ⋮ menu for Columns, Settings, and Show filters (chevron = which filter fields appear); see the five steps above for the full tour.
4. Click a row (or middle-click) to open the work item in Azure DevOps and continue editing there.

Developers can try the layout with sample rows using ?localDev=1 on the hub URL; real WIQL runs only when the extension is hosted inside a project.

Built for the people who live in Boards

• Product owners & BAs — Quick cross-sections of the backlog before refinement, without building a new query for every question.
• Engineering leads & scrum masters — Sprint- and assignee-focused filters plus iteration visibility in one scan.
• Anyone who prefers a table — When cards are too sparse and you want density, sortable context, and a straight path into the work item form.

Get started in three steps

1. Install from the Marketplace.
2. Open Boards → Vorsam Backlog Board.
3. Refresh after process or scope changes; adjust columns and filters until the table matches how your team reads the backlog.

Questions? Use the publisher support link on this listing, or visit vorsam.com for product details.

Technical note (admins)

Scopes: project and work items (read). No separate application backend; the hub is a static bundle that calls Azure DevOps REST from the browser. Filter and layout preferences (including chip colors) are stored in browser local storage on each client, not in Extension Data.