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Linking and fields mapping between JIRA issues made easy with Exocet
Jeremie MARTINEZ
May 12, 2014
Atlassian Administration
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Have you already tried to set up a hierarchical links between JIRA issues? Then you have certainly been using the native subtasks system and faced its limitations.
In JIRA indeed, there is no feature allowing to map the parent issue with its subtasks fields. Every time you link issues, you need to write manually the inherited content of a field. Tedious, isn’t it?
Exocet – our add-on, not the missile – adresses these limitations. It enables you to easily create linked issues in various ways : single copy, multiple copies, customised mapping…
With its latest release, Exocet makes Copy/Creation simpler and more efficient than ever:
Create a linked issue from an issue in one click: no need to go through the “More actions” drop down menu
Show useful data only: custom fields, images, transitions… whatever your users need to execute a request?
Now let’s see how it works.
Create and link issues in a click
Fed up of having to go through a crowded drop down menu to create issues? With Exocet, you can now choose to display your favorite operations as buttons and create linked issues directly from the issue view.
Configuration
In Exocet administration, you can now find a new “Operation access” menu in the operation creation pop up.
New “Operation Acess” menu
By picking “Actions Menu” the layout will remain identical, but if you tick Issue View the operation will appear as a button directly in the issue.
Result
When “Issue View” is ticked, available operations are now shown directly:
New operations buttons in the Issue View
In case of multiple operations, you can choose in the “General” Menu the maximum number of operations shown in the issue. In addition, operations will be available in a drop down menu – we kept the same principle as for workflows transitions.
Operations can be shown in a drop down menu
A customised view for linked issues
The linked issues list and the subtasks list, both quite simplistic, have shown their limitations. The “Advanced Data” panelof Exocet adresses this problem and enables you to choose which data of your linked issues you want to display.
Configuration
In Exocet administration, you can now find an “Advanced Data” panel. Admins are now able to create/modify/delete “Tables”.
In Exocet, a “Table” has a title, a “JQL” query, columns and possibly calculated fields. These tables are then presented as panels in the issue.
Creating a table in Exocet
You can add any initial or customised field as a column of the table.
When the paper clip is ticked, a link towards the issue is available in the panel.
It is essential to write a correct query. You can use the Issue Browser to help you with that.
Result
Every table with at least one issue matching the JQL request criteria will be displayed in the Issue View of the current issue.
Advanced Data panel
When displaying the subtask column, you can have a 3-levels overview of issues. The Σ Progress column will show the work progression for the issue and its subtasks.
When one or several transitions are available for the user, a star wheel appears on the right side of each issue.
You can show several tables in a same issue.
Bonus: how to associate one or several "Scripted field" to a panel
In addition of transferring data of linked issues to a parent issue, we can now “use” this data. Indeed, while configurating a table you can select one or several “Scripted field” (provided by Script Runner) in order to calculate a sum depending on the value of an other field.
Example
Let’s take the example of a parent issue in which 3 issues are shown in “Advanced Data”. These issues have a numeric field called “Price” and a radio button called “Criteria”:
List of initial issues
We want to calculate the sum of prices when the criteria associated to the price is “yes”only:
4. Update the issue and check that the calculation is correct:
The sum is calculated in the panel.
Conclusion
These new functions aim at making Exocet more efficient so it can fully meet your needs : make it easy to create linked issues and customise the way they will be displayed in their parent issue. Linking issues in JIRA is now simpler than ever.
Try Exocet, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it !
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