Stories Pane
1 Introduction
For version control-enabled apps (apps with Team Server or other Git servers), the Stories pane displays the stories and tasks of the active Sprint. Stories, tasks, and Sprints are created and managed via Epics in the Mendix Portal or connected to your Jira board.
In the Stories pane, you can view the stories and tasks of the active Sprint, update the status of the stories and tasks, and open their details.
The Stories pane consists of the top bar with various buttons and a table:
The table contains following columns:
- Story – shows the story number and an icon indicating whether the story is a bug or a feature
- Tasks are displayed as a sub-list of the corresponding story
- Title – shows the title of a story or a task
- Status – shows the status of a story or a task
2 Interacting with the Stories Pane
You can perform the following actions in the Stories pane:
2.1 Refreshing the Stories Pane
The Refresh button allows you to get the latest changes on stories and tasks done by you and your team members in the Mendix Portal or Studio Pro.
If two team members change the same story, the changes done last will take effect. For example, you set the story status to Running, but your colleague sets it to Done two minutes later. The story’s status will be set to Done when you click Refresh, as your colleague was the last one to implement changes.
2.2 Viewing Details
To view details of a story, do one of the following:
- Select the story in the table and click the Details button in the top bar
- Double-click it in the table
An angled bracket next to a story means it has tasks assigned to it. Double-clicking a story that has tasks will show and hide the tasks instead of showing the details of the story.
When you view the details of a story, the Story Details pop-up window opens with the following information:
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The number of the story
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Title – the title of the story
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Status – the current status of the story
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Points – the story points assigned to the story
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Description – the description of the story
2.5 Changing the Status of a Story or a Task
If you use Studio Pro version 10.10 or above, you can change the status of a story on the Stories pane. To do so, just select a new status in the Status column. The list of statuses to choose from can be managed via Epics in the Mendix Portal or the connected Jira board.
To change the status of a task, select or clear the checkbox in the Status column:
- Clear the checkbox to set the done task in To do
- Tick the checkbox to set the task to Done