Triage

Prioritize issues requested from other teams and customer support integrations.

Overview

Triage is a special Inbox for your team. Anytime an issue is created from an integration or by a workspace member not belonging to your specific Linear team, it will show up here. This offers a chance to review, update, and prioritize issues before they are added to the team's workflow.

Configure

Go to your team settings to enable Triage. Once you toggle it on, the Triage Inbox will show up under the team name in the sidebar.

Basics

Navigate to your Triage Inbox with G then T. If you are in another team's views, use O then T to open the team you want to view first.

Create issues

New issues will default to Triage status if they are created through an integration (e.g. Slack, Sentry), created when inside of the Triage view, or if members outside of your specific team create the issue.

When members of your team create new issues, they'll be set to the default status as configured in team workflow settings. This can be overridden manually by changing the status (Triage shows up at the bottom of the dropdown list).

Take actions

Open the issue to review it and take one of the following issue actions: accept with 1, mark as duplicate with 2, decline with 3, or snooze with H. You can escalate an issue to the current cycle by setting the issue property. To ask for more information from the user who created the issue, comment on the issue and keep it in Triage until you're ready to take an action.

Accepting an issue will put it in a Todo status and offer the option to leave a comment before you move it out of triage.

Marking as duplicate will offer the option to mark it as a duplicate of an existing issue, and set the current issue to Cancelled status.

Declining will put the issue in Cancelled status and present the option of adding a comment with a reasoning.

Snooze will remove it from the triage queue to return at a time of your choosing.

Merge issues

It's common to see duplicate reports for an issue or for teammates to report a bug that's known. Merge these requests instead of canceling them. Taking the merge action will add the duplicate issue's content as a comment to the canonical issue and move over any attachments including customer support tickets if you use one of our support integrations.

Notifications

Consider setting notifications for new Triage issues so you can action them promptly from your inbox. Configure this notification type under Account > Notifications > Teams > Manage Subscriptions.

Snooze

You can snooze Triage items if you aren't ready to take an action. Press H and select an amount of time to snooze the issue. Snoozing in Triage hides the issue until the chosen duration expires or there's new activity on the issue: whichever occurs sooner. See snoozed Triage issues by toggling the preference in View Options. Read more about snooze here.

Support integrations

Get more out of Triage by connecting it to our integrations with Intercom, Front, or Zendesk. Your customer support team will be able to create new Linear issues and link to existing ones directly from their customer support tool. Closed issues re-open customer conversations automatically for easy follow up with customers who have reported bugs or requested features.

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