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This addon provide a great feature: directly from your board, you can create a GANTT view of your project.

👉 See this video to know more:

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Install addon

After download the JAR, install using the link in Manage apps page, search addon as show in following GIF (Install the license if you are in Jira Datacenter or generate 30 days trial license)

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General

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Global Configuration

No

global configuration is needed. Just follow the Project configuration show in Usage paragraph.

Note:

At this moment, addon is compatible with following languages:

• en, es, nl, fr, it, cs, de, zh

It’s possible obtain this information using REST API: ./rest/api/2/myself. Value stored in a Browser cookie: gantt_locale

About date format, addon accepts all combinations of d, dd, M, MM, MMM, yy, yyyy in any order with separator “/” or “-“. The Date/Time formats can be obtained by the Jira System setting (In the Look&Feel section) called “Day/Month/Year Format” and must be consistent with the value of “Complete Date/Time Format“ as shown in following image:

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Usage in Jira Datacenter (Paid version)

Since december of 2023, exist a Paid commercial version of the App with those new features:

👉 The Gantt extract all the issues of the configured Issue filter of the Kanban board (that means, closed issues will appear in the Gantt)

👉 The Gantt is now editable. That means you can drag and drop or extend a task in the Gantt and the dates will be saved, also you can link tasks between with the relation/link-type selected in the header dropdown.

👉 The Gantt is now exportable. That means you can export the Gantt chart in different formats: Microsoft Project, PNG, iCAL, Excel, PDF.

👉 The Gantt is now full-colored. That means the task colors are based in the Epic colors assigned to the Issues represented in the Gantt chart.

👉 The Gantt task has status visible. That means you can see a new column that represent the current status of the task/Issue and it's compatible with the App New Status Colors PRO for Jira Datacenter

👉 A new menu will appear in the Kanban board settings to define the Gantt settings: The Aggregate field (usually "Assignee"), Start date (usually Creation date), End date (usually Updated date) and Link type (usually Blocks)

👉 And more excellent features pending to come! 

First step, go to your Kanban board in Jira and click in "Board" → "Settings" and select the "Easy Kanban Roadmap" tab.

Configure the fields: The Aggregate field (usually "Assignee"), Start date (usually Creation date), End date (usually Updated date) and Link type (usually Blocks)

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Second step, go to your Kanban board, and in the board-header-menu click "Easy Kanban Roadmap" to display the Gantt chart

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Third step, once displayed the Gantt chart, select the scale: Day,Week,Month,Quarter,Year.

Drag issues or extend tasks dates, now the Gantt chart is editable! The new dates are stored automatically ( Important note: the read-only system dates like Created, Updated, Resolved cannot be overriden)

Link issues between directly from the chart using the link type dropdown Linktype. Export the Gantt or print it to most famous formats: Microsoft Project, PDF, PNG, iCal Excel...

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Usage in Jira Server (Free version)

Before use the addon, configure the project-board following those easy steps:

👉 define 3 fields necessary for the addon, as show in following image in the Card layout section of the settings of your usual Kanban board:

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👉 The first field must be some field to make the Group By hierarchy in the Gantt, for example, you can use the system field “assignee“. 

👉 As second field you can use “Created” system field or an “Start date” custom field (created by you previously in Jira),

👉 As third field you can use “Due Date” or “Resolved” or “Updated” system fields or an “End date” custom field (created by you in Jira)Result

After this, feature icon is enabled

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and this is the result once you click on it.

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NOTE

If your Jira is configured in other time locale and language, you always can use the plugin Adaptavist Scriptrunner to show Calculated fields in the issues and solve the problem. The name of this feature is “Script fields“.

A simple example with a Date-time calculated field ( please note the Searcher template is “Date Time Range picker“)

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Now we configure the script field as Date-time

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Now we can develop complex formulas/scripts to show our Date field in a dynamic way and calculated on view! Example to show Transition dates (remember, you can show the first date of transition or the last date…just change the “reverse()” method of the function):

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Example with the standard Dates of an Issue: Created, Updated, Resolved, DueDate,…

You can condition on Project, IssueType or Status!

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Also, probably you want to obtain a Custom Field extra date to show calculated, from a linked issue…see this complex example:

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Addon can work with String dates, then the Language of your Jira Server is not a problem. You can create Script Calculated Date fields in String format! Just create an HTML Script Field. Please note the “Free Text Searcher” in this case.

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And the HTML as a template (the result will be not editable in this way):

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Now see this example to format the Date to English obtaining a custom field called “Start Date” and shown the value formatted

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The same with the Date standard issue fields like Created, Updated, Resolved, DueDate…

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Gantt is well integrated with MrAddon Apps, like:

Kanban Combined WIP for Jira (Server)

New Status Colors PRO for Jira Server

New Status Colors for Jira Server

Issue Card Printer for JIRA Server

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If Kanban Combined WIP for Jira (Server) is installed in own instance, it’s possible configure JGantt directly from Board configuration in order to store the new Dates of the tasks, just using drag’n’drop through the Gantt Diagram. Just select BOARD → Configure

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and the new menu item is available on the left: Kanban Gantt Configuration.

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and it’s possible configure the JGantt option directly. If Kanban Combined WIP for Jira (Server) is not installed, follow the previous paragraph description for the configuration.

That’s all? of course no.

As a new feature, if you modify the Gantt, Start Date and End Date Field are automatically modified. As shown:

👉 starting from this:

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👉 do the action shown:

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👉 and the result is:

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The issue start date modification on the JGantt is reported in tasks.

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If New Status Colors PRO for Jira Server is installed in own instance, in JGantt is present a new option

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just select this new option and ….

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If New Status Colors for Jira Server is installed in own instance, we have the same effect.

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If Issue Card Printer for JIRA Server is installed in own instance, in JGantt is present another option

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just select the desired option and it’s possible print

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As you read, the plugin is and will be always Open Source and collaborators all welcome always of course! For any type of suggestion or issues/bugs you can contact in our Customer Portal

20 Dec 2019 Ravi Sagar review of addon on his youtube channel.

24 May 2020 Add integration with Issue Card Printer for JIRA Server

08 May 2020 Add integration with New Status Colors PRO for Jira Server

20 Oct 2020 Add integration with Kanban Combined WIP for Jira Server

01 Dec 2023 Kanban Gantt is now Easy Kanban Roadmap (formerly Kanban Gantt) and is a commercial paid App for Datacenter with new features.

19 Dec 2023 New feature: Gantt export to Microsoft Project and changes in User Experience

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