Example Ultimate Dashboard
- Ultimate Dashboard for Jira
During the previous tutorials, one of each of the Ultimate Dashboard for Jira gadgets was created. This tutorial demonstrates navigating this new dashboard and using the Ultimate Controller gadget to refine and explore the organizations average story points per issue.
The layout chosen for this demonstration is a wide content area with a sidebar column on the right.
Okay! That’s neat though what does the Ultimate Controller do exactly?
Using the Ultimate Controller
Ultimate Controller Indicators
On the normal view (not the configuration screen), there are number of user interface elements that are important to know about beyond just the five main drop-down selectors
Starting with the bottom right is the Auto Refresh indicator. This displays the currently configured controller Auto-Refresh cycle and turns blue when things are refreshing
Next is the bottom middle which is the issue results indicator. This displays the total number of issues matching the controller’s overall configuration.
Conveniently the issue results indicator is also a link which opens a new tab with the equivalent Jira search page matching the controller configuration. This helps verify what is actually included within the issue results used by the other Ultimate Jira Dashboard gadgets. In this current case, with only the defaults configured, is the search results for all available Jira issues (ie: jql=, an empty JQL statement)
Finally is an interesting feature of the Ultimate Controller. This is the Listening Gadgets indicator, which displays a dashboard-y looking icon and the number of other Ultimate Jira Dashboard gadgets presently listening for this controller gadget’s change events (such as an auto refresh cycle event)
The listening gadgets indicator is also a toggle button that when pressed pauses the controller gadget from emitting any change events to the other gadgets present on the dashboard
Pressing the toggle again make the controller to resume emitting events and to immediate emit a general configuration update immediately, causing the other listening gadgets to refresh their state based on the controller’s current settings
Ultimate Controller Selectors
The five main controller selectors are fairly self explanatory, the Sprints drop-down limits the issue results to only ones within the selected Sprint
Selecting “Sample Sprint 1” in our fictitious organization gives only 7 results, not a big sprint it seems!
What did this controller change do to the rest of the dashboard though?
Interesting! Only two people worked on the sprint and the average story points looks like the issues weren’t overly complicated and were distributed neatly between the two team members!
Finished!
This tutorial is now complete for the purposes of getting a basic dashboard setup and ready to go!
To see how the Ultimate Dashboard for Jira gadgets can work for your organization, go to the Atlassian marketplace and try the Ultimate Dashboard for Jira today!