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title: "Synchronization filters"
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Synchronization filters offer the ability to further define the scope of issues or work items to be synchronized. The first step is to define which project in Jira and TFS to connect, followed by selecting all fields and field types from each project and mapping data values as needed.  Updates made in Jira items within the last 25 minutes might not be considered in filter results due to Atlassian's indexing delay. If you want to include all recently updated items, wait for 25 minutes to ensure all Jira updates are included. This applies to Jira Cloud only. Example Jira to Azure DevOps As a support manager, I want to synchronize only items needing development assistance in Jira to Azure DevOps when the label is set to  development  so that developers can track which issues from support are added to the backlog.  Launch Self-Hosted Synchronizer. Select the profile for which you would like to define filters. Select the  Filters  tab. In the  Filters  page, select  Filter Jira items  and define the filter. Click  Test query  to test the entire WIQL and return execution results.  Testing the filter query is run as a normal query without any impact to current or future synchronizations.  Click  Save settings.  Saving filters is only possible for filters that were successfully executed. Filters are based on Jira Query Language (JQL). For more information, please refer to  Advanced search with Jira Query Language Filters are additional parameters added to JQL. In other words, the project and item types that have already been defined during configuration. In the example above, when clicking on See in Jira, you would see the following: project  =  jiraprojectname  AND ( labels  =  development ) Project and issue type can only be modified through Profile configuration Example Azure Devops to Jira As a business manager, I want to synchronize all work approved through development to Jira so that I can properly manage the progress of projects.  Launch Self-Hosted Synchronizer. Select the profile you would like to define filters. Select the  Filters  tab. In the  Filters  page, select  Filter TFS items  and define the filter. Click  Test query  to test the entire WIQL and return execution results.  Testing the filter query is run as a normal query without any impact to current or future synchronizations.  Click  Save settings.  Saving filters is only possible for filters that were successfully executed. Filters are based on Work Item Query Language (WIQL). For more information, please refer to  Azure DevOps (WIQL) syntax reference . Filters are additional parameters to limit the scope of the data to be synchronized. Project and item types have already been defined during configuration and can only be changed through Profile configuration.