Stories

Your Core Work Items

Stories are the building blocks of your projects in complexus. They represent individual tasks, issues, bugs, or any piece of work that needs to be tracked and completed. Think of them as the actionable items that move your projects forward, helping you and your team stay organized and focused.

With Stories, you can:

• Clearly define work: Break down larger objectives into manageable tasks with rich text descriptions.
• Track progress: Monitor the status of each work item as it moves through your workflow.
• Assign ownership: Ensure every task has a responsible team member (Assignee) and know who reported it (Reporter).
• Set priorities and timelines: Manage urgency with Priority levels (No Priority, Low, Medium, High, Urgent) and keep track of Start and Due Dates.
• Organize and categorize: Use Labels for flexible tagging and categorization.
• Collaborate effectively: Discuss details, ask questions, and share updates via Comments in the Activity Feed.
• Link related items: Connect Stories to Objectives, Sprints, external Links, and break them down further with Sub-Stories.
• Include all necessary context: Add Attachments directly to a story.

Creating a Story

Getting a new task into complexus is straightforward. complexus offers multiple ways to create a Story, ensuring you can capture work whenever and however it arises:

• Global Shortcut: Press Shift + N from anywhere in the application to quickly open the new story dialog.
• Header Button: Click the prominent New story button, usually found in the main header of the application.
• Sidebar Button: Use the Create story button located in the main navigation sidebar.
• Command Menu: Open the command menu with Cmd + K (or Ctrl + K on Windows/Linux), then type "new story", "create story", or simply "story" and select the create action.
• From the "My Work" view: Quickly add tasks to your personal backlog.
• Within a Project or specific views: Add stories directly to a specific project or context, ensuring they are automatically associated.

When the New story dialog opens (often titled with your current team prefix, e.g., ENG):

Viewing and Managing Story Details

Clicking on any story in a list or board view will open its detailed view. This view typically comprises a main content area on the left and a Properties Panel on the right.

Main Details Area

This area usually displays the following sections:

Properties Panel

This panel on the right allows you to view and modify key properties of the story:

• At the bottom of this panel, you can often find actions like + Add link.
• Other actions like Duplicate, Delete, etc., might also be found here or under a general options menu for the story.

Quick Edits from List and Kanban Views

Beyond the detailed story view, complexus allows you to make quick changes to certain story properties directly from your List and Kanban views. This is useful for rapidly updating items without needing to open each one individually.

Commonly editable properties from these views include:

• Status: Often changed by dragging a story to a different column in Kanban view, or via a dropdown in List view.
• Priority: Typically editable via a clickable icon or dropdown in both views.
• Assignee: Quickly reassign stories from the list or board.
• Sprint & Objective: May also be editable directly from these views, depending on the view configuration.

Keyboard Shortcuts

complexus aims to make you more efficient. Look out for keyboard shortcuts for common actions on stories.