In this chapter, we will learn how to edit story in VersionOne. Editing a story consists of many actions. With the Edit Story feature, we can modify the details of the story, close it, delete it, add it into the watchlist, block it with issues or defects, convert into defect, etc. In this chapter, we will discuss how to go about editing story details, closing a story and deleting a story.

Edit Story Details

While editing the story details, a user can edit the details of the story including title, priority, estimation and dependencies. The only field that remains unmodified is the unique id of the story; it can never be changed or modified.

There are three ways to edit a story. The ways are described as options below −

Option 1

It is recommended to quickly edit title, story points, projects, priority, owner and order. Follow these steps in Option 1 for editing a story.

• Go to the Product Planner → Backlog. It opens the backlog page.

• Double-click on row to make the column editable. The column changes from view only to edit mode.

• After editing, click on the Save button. It saves all the modified details of the corresponding row.

The following screenshot displays how to edit by taking up Option 1 −

Option 2

Follow these steps under Option 2 for editing a story.

• Go to Product Planner → Backlog.

• Click on the Edit button present corresponding to each row. It will open the story details in the Edit mode.

• After editing, click on Save/Save & View. It saves all modified details of the corresponding story.

The following screenshot displays how to access the edit functionality −

Option 3

• Click on Story Title/ID to open the Story Details page.

• Clicking on the Pencil icon next to the field makes the field editable.

• Make the appropriate changes and then press Enter/Return on the keyboard. It saves the modified details of the respective field.

The following screenshot shows the edit functionality at the story detail page −

Close a Story

Once all tasks of a story complete, it can be closed to claim the work done in the sprint. A closed story can be re-opened later if required. In this section, we will discuss how to close a story.

• Closing a story shows that all the work related to the story is complete.

• Once a story is closed, a user can re-open it if additional changes are required in future.

• Quick close updates the status of story and closes it in a single click.

There are many ways to close a story. We will discuss the ways as options below.

Option 1

• Go to Product Planner → Backlog..

• Click on the Edit dropdown present corresponding to each row.

• Select Close or Quick Close as shown in the screenshot below:.

• If a user selects Close, it opens an additional window. Here, select status and click on the Close Backlog Item button as shown in the screenshot below −

Option 2

• Click on Story Title/ID to open the Story Details page.

• Click on the Edit dropdown. It displays all the available options.

• Select Close or Quick Close as shown in the screenshot below.

• If a user selects Close, it opens an additional window. Here, select a status and then click on the Close Backlog item. Upon selecting the Quick close option, it directly closes the story.

Delete a Story

A deleted story cannot be tracked and visualized later. Deletion usually happens if a story is not needed or if it is duplicate. In this section, we will discuss the deletion of a story.

• If a story is created in error or duplicate, it should be deleted. For tracking the story, it must be closed instead of deleted.

• Deleting a story hides all of its references.

• If a story is deleted, the child items like link, attachments, task or test sets also get deleted.

Following are the steps to delete a story −

• Go to Product Planner → Backlog..

• Click on the Edit dropdown present corresponding to each row. It displays the available options to take action.

• Select Delete as shown in the screenshot below −

• It will open the read only detail of the story with Delete button. Click on the Delete button as shown below. As soon as the button is clicked, the story gets de-listed from the backlog item and all of its references will also be deleted.

• Similar steps as performed above can be followed to delete the story from the Story Detail page.

• Click on the Story title/id to open the story detail page.

• Click on the Edit dropdown and select Delete.

• It will open the read only detail of the story with the Delete button. Click on the Delete button.