Add Artifacts Quickly
You can add artifacts (quick add) in select planning folders with minimum required artifact information.
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Select a planning folder in one of the swim lanes. The quick add (
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Click the quick add (
) button. The Create Artifact window appears.
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Select a tracker type from the TRACKER drop-down list.
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Type a title and description. You can select the USE TITLE AS A DESCRIPTION check box to copy the title you type to the DESCRIPTION text box.
Artifacts support @mentions: Artifact description and comments now support @mentions and users called out via @mentions are added to the monitoring list. Include usernames with “@” as prefix (for example, @mphippard) to add users to the monitoring list.
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Click Submit. The artifact is added as the bottommost artifact in the swim lane (planning folder). You may choose to rank the artifact (if you have rank permission) or update the artifact with more meta data later. To update the artifact, click the artifact ID link.
Rank a Card
If you have the requisite permission, you can drag and drop a card about or below the other cards within a swim lane to position it in the order you want the artifact addressed.
Reassign (move) a Card
In the course of planning your release, you may want to assign an artifact from the product backlog to a specific sprint or team, or move an artifact from one sprint to another. To do this, just drag and drop the artifact card from one swim lane to the other.
To be able to move cards between swim lanes, you need to have the permission to update planning folders and rank artifact cards.
Edit an Artifact using the Artifact ID Link
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Click the artifact ID link.
The View Artifact page appears.
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Make the necessary changes and click Update to update the artifact and return to the Planning Board.
To quickly edit an artifact:
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Click the edit artifact (
) button in a card. The Edit Artifact window appears.
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You can edit the following in the Edit Artifact window:
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Artifact title
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Artifact description
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Primary and secondary attributes
You have two expandable frames, Primary Attributes and Secondary Attributes, that list fields you can edit. Primary attributes include Priority, Status, Assigned To, Team, Estimated Effort, Remaining Effort, Actual Effort and Points. The expandable frames and the fields listed in them depend on your application configuration that you set in Tracker Settings. For example:
- Configurable fields which are enabled. For more information, see Enable or Disable Tracker Fields.
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User-defined fields (flex fields) with the field type Text Entry and Single Select and set as Required (Tracker Settings > Tracker Administration > Create Field) or workflow configured. For more information, see Create Custom Tracker Fields and Create a Tracker Workflow.
Note: You cannot change the status of an artifact in the Planning Board view, ifAssigned To
is set as a mandatory field for status changes per your tracker workflow settings (Tracker Settings). However, you can edit the status of an artifact in the List view with the sameAssigned To
workflow constraint.By default, the following field types which you select while creating a user-defined field (Tracker Settings), are non-editable from the planning board’s Edit Artifact window: Multiple select, Date picker and User picker.
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Comments
In this expandable frame, in addition to adding comments, you can view the last five comments for an artifact.
Artifacts support @mentions: Artifact description and comments now support @mentions and users called out via @mentions are added to the monitoring list. Include usernames with “@” as prefix (for example, @mphippard) to add users to the monitoring list.
Note: Users called out via @mentions must haveArtifact View
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After editing an artifact, click Update.
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