User Story Tutorial - Using Tag

Why tagging is needed?

Tagging is a way to group or identify collections of user stories. It provides you with the ability to logically group and filter different users' stories. It is extremely helpful when you need to find similar user stories. For example, while you are looking for one user story which is urgent, you might also want to find out the others which are also urgent. With the tag label 'urgent' being applied, they can easily locate all of the urgent user stories and deal with them at once.

How to create tag?

1. Create a user story first. Open the User Story page in UeXceler. If you are not opening UeXceler, select UeXceler > UeXceler from the toolbar and then open the User Story page.
   
2. Double-click on Add a feature that can be finished in 10 days
   
3. Enter Send private message to instructor as the name of user story and press Enter to confirm editing.
   
4. Let's say we want to create an Urgent tag for this user story. Click to select the user story first.
5. Click on the Add tags button.
   
6. Enter Urgent as the name of the new tag in the text field and then select <Create New>.
   
7. The tag is created and is added to the user story.
   

How to add a tag to user story?

Let's say if we want to add the existing tag Urgent to another user story.

1. Create another user story Reply inbox message and select it.
   
2. Click on the Add tags button.
   
3. Select the tag(s) from the popup menu, in this case, check the Urgent tag that we have just created in the previous section.
   
4. Click Apply to add the tag.
   

How to filter the screen to show user stories with specific tag?

1. Let's say the user story Read inbox message is a core user story of the system and we want to indicate it with a tag. Add a new tag Core to the user story. Up to now, you have created two user stories:
   
2. Let's say if we want to review all core user stories. We can use the filter function to screen out all the non-related ones, so that only those with the Core tags are remained. Click the drop down button next to the Filter at top left and then select Core from the popup menu.
   
3. As a result, only those user stories with the Core tag are shown.