Configuring custom tags for auditing

Custom tags enable auditors to set additional attributes that describe the issue. You can use custom tag values to filter and find issues.

The Analysis tag is configured by default and when you apply the Analysis tag to an issue, the icon in the Analysis Results issue list indicates the analysis status.

To refine your auditing process, you can define your own custom tags. You can create the following types of custom tags: list, decimal, string, and date. For example, you might create a list-type custom tag to track the sign-off process for an issue. After a developer audits his own issues, a security expert can review those same issues and mark each as "approved" or "not approved."

After you define a custom tag, the Audit tab displays it below the Analysis tag, which enables you to specify values as they relate to specific issues. The tag is also available in other areas of the interface, such as in the Group By list as a way to group issues in a folder, in the search box as a search modifier (similarly available as a modifier for filters), and in the project summary graph as an attribute by which to graphically sort issues.

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