# Story and Task Priority

**URL:** <https://community.taiga.io/t/story-and-task-priority/3372>\
**Category:** Taiga basics\
**Created:** [May 23, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/story-and-task-priority/3372 "2024-05-23T00:06:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sweetspot\_kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sweetspot\_kevin](https://community.taiga.io/u/sweetspot_kevin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/story-and-task-priority/3372/1 "2024-05-23T00:06:02Z")

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Admittedly, I’m a noob with Taiga, Kanban and Agile. But is there a reason why I can’t assign a priority to Stories and Tasks? From a team triage standpoint, it seems like it would make sense to give users the ability to see what requires the most attention the most.

And I see that I can create custom fields and could create a priority dropdown with this feature. But it doesn’t seem like I can add that value to the cards on the Kanban view. Or am I overlooking that?

Lastly, I could create tags, but then I could create illogical situations like assigning both “high priority” and “low priority” to a story at the same time.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Charlie](https://community.taiga.io/u/Charlie)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/story-and-task-priority/3372/2 "2024-05-23T06:14:15Z")

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Hi there!

In Kanban, in theory, stuff closer to the top is higher priority. You can also have Swimlanes for different priorities, if you would like.

Since you are new to Agile, I’d recommend you take a look at [this section](https://community.taiga.io/c/improve-your-agile-with-taiga/9) of the community for tips, tricks, and explanations!

Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![sweetspot\_kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sweetspot\_kevin](https://community.taiga.io/u/sweetspot_kevin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/story-and-task-priority/3372/3 "2024-05-23T18:29:37Z")

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Thanks for the info, Charlie. I appreciate the reply. I’ll check out that link.