General Information
Environment | Jira Server & Datacenter |
|---|---|
Price | Free |
Goal | Generate a Gantt graph directly from your Board |
Description
This addon provide a great feature: directly from your board, you can create a GANTT view of your project.
Install addon
After download the JAR, install using the link in Manage apps page, search addon as show in following GIF
General Configuration
No general configuration is needed. Just follow the Project configuration show in Usage paragraph.
Addon have a general configuration. It can be reference from BOARD configuration.
Following GIF show how reference new global configuration ….
…. and this is the new configuratio
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:
Usage
Before use the addon, configure the project following those easy steps:
define the three fields
It can be reference from BOARD configuration, as shown following GIF ….
… select the new item of the BOARD Configuration
We suggest add the same field on Card Layout, as show in following image:
so we can check all information at glance. Now we can use feature
and this is the result
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“)
Now we configure the script field as Date-time
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):
Example with the standard Dates of an Issue: Created, Updated, Resolved, DueDate,…
You can condition on Project, IssueType or Status!
Also, probably you want to obtain a Custom Field extra date to show calculated, from a linked issue…see this complex example:
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.
And the HTML as a template (the result will be not editable in this way):
Now see this example to format the Date to English obtaining a custom field called “Start Date” and shown the value formatted
The same with the Date standard issue fields like Created, Updated, Resolved, DueDate…
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
Integration and new features
Gantt is well integrated with others Apps, like:
As a new feature, if you modify the Gantt, Start Date and End Date Field are automatically modified. As shown:
starting from this:
do the action shown:
and the result is:
