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Default story template

With Combiner, you have a default story title and description when clicking on “Add Story” in pivotaltracker.com. You can cycle through placeholders by typing Tab or Tab+Shift.

Description

By default, Combiner is creating a story template. Meaning that when you click on “Add Story”, the title and description will be prefilled with placeholders.

The placeholders are surrounded by <>. You can jump to the next or previous placeholder respectively with Tab or Shift+Tab.

The default title template is:

<TITLE>: As <user>, I want <description>, so that <benefit>

The default description template is:

Acceptance Criteria

  • <AC1>

Notes

  • <NOTE1>

If you want to overwrite the template, see the next section.

Customise the template

You can change this template (to remove it for example) like so:

Description

If you want to overwrite the template provided by Combiner:

  1. Go to your pivotal tracker project
  2. Click on “More” on the top nav
  3. Click on “Manage Templates”
  4. Create a story title template:
  5. Click on Add Template
  6. The template title must start with “[story-title]”
  7. Type your template in the description, surround with <> your placeholders
  8. Create a story description template:
  9. Click on Add Template
  10. The template title must start with “[story-descr]”
  11. Type your template in the description, surround with <> your placeholders