Customize story states of your Essential SAFe dashboard reports

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title: Customize story states of your Essential SAFe dashboard reports
description: Configure story states to reflect your customizations on the Essential SAFe dashboards.
locale: en-US
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product: Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\)
classification: scaled-agile-framework-safe
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Customizing Essential SAFe dashboard reports, Performance Analytics Content Pack for Essential SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\), Strategic Portfolio Management]
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# Customize story states of your Essential SAFe dashboard reports

Configure story states to reflect your customizations on the Essential SAFe dashboards.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin or pa\_admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\)** > **Stories**.

2.  Open a story to which you would like to add the custom states.

3.  Right-click **State** and select **Configure Choices** from the drop-down menu.

4.  In the **New item text** field, enter the new custom state name.

5.  In the **Numeric value** field, enter any corresponding number.

6.  Click **Add**.

    The new state appears in the Selected list.

7.  Click **Save**.


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