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Projects in Jira require enough information to properly track their status and control a successful result. For doing so, Projectrak by DEISER provides a unique solution to add custom fields to projects, making data annotation a simple and smooth process. Review all the benefits that this app brings, like predefine fields ready right after installing it; the list view of projects to see your portfolio information at a glance; the release view to keep your version planning visible for all stakeholders, etc.
This gadget displays the result of a PQL query, as a table or a chart. Indicate a custom PQL, then indicate how you want to display the results View Type, the Columns you want to display in your report in case of a table (drag and drop to change the order), and performing grouping and/or aggregations (see next sections for further information).
Projectrak provides the Project Query Language (PQL), which is like the Jira Query Language (JQL), but to query data from your projects.
For example, to list all the projects in the software category where the Country is Germany or the Continent is Europe, then use the following PQL query:
category = development AND ( Country = Germany OR Continent = Europe )
Projectrak provides the Project Query Language (PQL), which is like the Jira Query Language (JQL), but to query data from your projects.
For example, to list all the projects in the software category where the Country is Germany or the Continent is Europe, then use the following PQL query:
category = development AND ( Country = Germany OR Continent = Europe )
You can select any of the following visual metaphors to represent the resulted data by the JQL in the View Type field: Table, line chart, tile chart, pie chart, bar chart, grouped bar chart, stacked bar chart or multi line chart.
The results of your JQL query as a table, where you can select which columns are displayed.
Group results by selected columns If you are familiar with the GROUP BY statement in SQL, you’ll quickly find interesting uses to group the results of your JQL. If you select to group the results by the previously selected columns, the result rows will be split into groups, based on their values. Thus, only one row will be displayed for each of the groups, so be careful because this implies constraints on the columns.
For example, if we filter the previous list of issues by the column Status, the results will show only two rows, one for the status To Do and other for the status Done.
And if we select these three columns: Status, Assignee and Project, the resulting list will display three rows like in the following image:
The grouping of columns is typically combined with aggregations, which moves us to the next section.
Aggregations are also a common in the SQL domain. These functions get the values of grouped rows as the input of that function to return a calculated value. This gadget currently support five functions:
Count. It returns the number of rows in that group.
Sum. It returns the addition of the sequence of the numbers of the group.
Min. It returns the smallest value of the range of values of the group.
Max. It returns the largest value of the range of values of the group.
Mean. The arithmetic mean, it sums the values of the grouped rows and divides the result by how many rows are being averaged.
For example, if we want to calculate the mean of the story points
Remember that: Chart by. Indicates the x-axis values (horizontal axis), also referred as the series, or in layman terms, the concepts we see in the legend of the chart. Type. Is the aggregation you want to apply to the field: count, sum, max, min, mean. Check the aggregations section. Field. Indicates the y-axis values (vertical axis), what do we want to plot in the chart. |
A pie chart is a visualization of your data in a circular graph, where each slice indicates the quantity of the result of your JQL. When a pie chart has several sections or slices, it’s difficult to compare one with another. To overcome this inconvenience, the pie chart comes with a table indicating the values of each slice and the % it represents.
When the field selected in “Chart by” has a date format e.g., Created, a new selector appears to allow grouping by day, week, month, quarter or year, making the results easier to understand and communicate.
Colors have the power of communicating meaning, provoke emotions and highlight information. Within our organizations and teams, it’s common to associate concepts to specific colors, making easier and quicker the communication of ideas and information.
Whenever you select a chart, you’ll be able to select the color of each specific segment or value of it:
The color picker allows the selection of a color either by hexadecimal code, RGB or our pre-defined 24 colors palette (selected based on the right contrasts and tones).
Not all the results are needed when communicating information in a chart, sometimes because one of those values or segments distorts the results or deviates the attention.
Clicking on the 
eye icon, the corresponding segment is hidden (or shown) in the chart:
In the same line of hiding segments or customizing the colors of our charts, rearranging the position of the existing segments or values reinforces the way we transmit the information with our charts.
Just drag and drop any segment or value from the six dots in the left side of the segments and move it upwards or downwards to the correct place, and the chart will be updated accordingly.
Name your gadget meaningfully, so everyone knows at a glance what it is about and when to use it. Fill out the rest of the fields as applicable, namely:
The datasource, where the Confluence cloud instance is installed.
The JQL (Jira Query Language) query or filter to filter the list of issues (see the JQL documentation). If you don’t add any and click “Load”, the gadget will request all the content in the source instance, this might cause performance issues. We recommend to add at least one clause, for example to list all the issues of the project Teams in Space use the clause project = "TIS”. And remember that the gadget returns the results of the query, which are not fixed and could change over time.
The View Type parameter to indicate the visual representation of the JQL query results: Table, line chart, tile chart, pie chart, bar chart, grouped bar chart, stacked bar chart or multi line chart.
The Chart by parameter (just for charts) to select the x-axis value, in other words, what you see in the horizontal axis. These values or concepts are indicated in the chart legend.
The Type parameter (just for charts) to indicate what type of aggregation you want to apply to the field parameter: Count, sum, max, min, mean. Check the aggregations section.
The Field parameter (just for charts) to select the y-axis values (vertical axis), think of what you want to count (or any other aggregation) and plot in the chart.
The columns (just for the table view) that will appear in the list to display the search results. At least one column has to be present. Drag and drop to reorder the columns. Check the section.
Group results by selected columns (just for the table view) in case you want to group the results of the query by the previously selected columns. The resulting rows the result rows will be split into groups, based on their values. Check the group results section.
The aggregations (just for the table view) in case you need to perform calculations -Count, sum, max, min, mean- over the results. Check the aggregations section.
Finally, indicate if you want to use the current settings for all the compatible gadgets in the dashboard. This option eases the pain of configuring one by one the rest of the gadgets with the same default configuration
(see Projectrack cloud)
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