Creating a JIRA dashboard that works off of an existing main project board

[Daniel Smith]

Have a current project that is being used but want to create a new project within the main project.  Our goal is to move any JIRAs that may be opened within the main project and tagged with our specific tag, to a specialize dashboard withing the main project; to keep track of, developed metric-based information and allows our specific area to focus on what we truly need to accomplish.  Want to avoid going into main JIRA board via an existing JIRA that has out tag, then clicking the tag to separate.  

Bottom line, if anybody puts in a JIRA in the main project and labels without tag, it automatically copies into our newly created dashboard for our use and tracking, but still doesn't compromise the main page's data and metric output.  

If a rep can call me and walk me through options, I feel it would more productive as well.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Jira does not have nested projects, each one is an independent entity.  So issues created in your new project will not affect any reporting you are doing on the existing project.

Jira's dashboards are user-created reporting screens, they're not part of a project or board.

Most of the gadgets you can add to a dashboard work off filters, the saved search definitions that your people can create.  (A lot offer the option of projects as well as a filter, so you don't need to create filters like "project = XYZ").   

So the best way to get started is to run a search for the issues you want to report on, save it as a filter (probably several different filters depending on what you want to report on, most likely at least one per project), create a new dashboard, and have a rummage through all the different gadgets you can add to it to see which ones can report on what you want.