Chapter 5.  Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Writing a JIRA report
  • Reports in Excel format
  • Data validation in JIRA reports
  • Restricting access to reports
  • Object configurable parameters for reports
  • Writing JIRA gadgets
  • Invoking REST services from gadgets
  • Configuring user preferences in gadgets
  • Accessing gadgets outside of JIRA

Introduction

Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning different projects and issues, and lots of project planning done on it, we need more and more reports with customized data according to our needs.

There are two different kinds of reporting available in JIRA:

  • Gadgets that can be added into a user's dashboard - gadgets are mini applications ...

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