---
key: find-work-orders-that-need-attention
title: Find work orders that need attention
audience: staff
section: operations
routes: ["/work-orders"]
permissions: ["work_orders.read"]
features: ["work_orders.core"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Use the View button on the Work Orders page to show only the work orders that need scheduling, need someone assigned, are ready to invoice, and more, then page through the list.
keywords: [backlog, unscheduled, unassigned, work queue, to do list, next page]
related: [create-a-work-order, reschedule-a-work-order, change-a-work-order-assignment]
---

In the sidebar, open **Operations**, then **Work Orders**. The page address is `/work-orders`. The list shows 20 work orders at a time and opens on **All work**.

## Steps

1. Beside **Filters**, press **View**. The button shows the view you are on and how many work orders it holds.
2. Pick a view. Each one shows how many work orders are in it right now:
   - **All work**: every work order, open or closed.
   - **Needs scheduling**: open work orders that don't have a date yet.
   - **Needs assignment**: scheduled work orders with nobody assigned.
   - **Ready to go**: scheduled and assigned, not started yet.
   - **In progress**: work orders being worked on right now.
   - **Follow-up**: work orders marked as needing a follow-up.
   - **Ready to invoice**: finished work orders that haven't been invoiced yet.
   - **Closed**: cancelled work orders and ones already invoiced.
3. To go back to everything, press the × on the view's chip under the search box, or pick **All work**.
4. To see more work orders, use **Next page** and **Previous page** at the top of the list, or the page numbers, **Previous** and **Next** under it.
5. To show more per page, change **Rows** under the list to 50 or 100.

## What you see

- The **View** button is highlighted in your workspace colour while a view other than **All work** is on, and a chip under the search box names it.
- The line at the top of the list says which work orders you are looking at, for example "Showing 21–40 of 126 work orders", and which page you are on.
- Switching views, searching or changing a filter takes you back to page 1. The page number stays in the page address, so refreshing the page or coming back from a work order keeps your place.

## If something looks different

- **View** reads **Custom filters**: you picked a status or schedule in **Filters** that doesn't match one view. Pick a view, or press **Reset filters** in **Filters**.
- **Filters** shows a number but no view chip: other filters are narrowing the list. Open **Filters** to see or clear them.
- There are no page buttons: every matching work order already fits on one page.