Dashboard which shows issue count by status for a number of Epics?

[Darrel Jackson]

I have a number of Epics each with a number of issues in them and those issues have various statuses. What I'd like to do is provide a self-service report which shows the Epics and for each Epic a count of issues for each status. For example,  Epic A has 5 "to do" issues, 3 "In Progress" issues and 1 "Done" issue; Epic B has 0 "to do" issues, 2 "In Progress" issues and 6 "Done" issues. This is using Jira Software Cloud Standard. I want do provide this without users having to click on each individual Epic and viewing the issue list and manually counting issues by status.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

A simple "two dimensional filter statistics" gadget will do this on a dashboard.

Run a search for the issues you are interested in (not the epics, but the issues).  Save it as a filter, then go to the dashboard, add the gadget, put in the name of your saved filter, and select "status" on the X axis and "epic link" on the Y axis.

[Darrel Jackson]

Beautiful, thank you.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No problem.  2d gadget is a firm favourite for me, I often plug it.

I just wanted to add that I forgot to talk about the filter - one of the nice things about this trick is that the filter doesn't have to be based on links, you could have it look at one or many projects, search by priority, tie it to a user or group etc ("priority = critical" was a firm favourite at my last place). 

 The gadget will report by Epic Link and status, whatever the search.  One "get everything of every possible relevance" is to use "Epic link is not empty"

[Sebastian Somi]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

thanks for this info, I am having difficulty displaying other status other than Backlog andon Hold.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Your filter is only returning issues in those two status, I think you may need to widen its brief so it includes other issues that may be in a different status.

[Sebastian Somi]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- .

First of all I appreciate your quick response. You can see from the first screenshot that the filter returns also statuses "Deployment to UAT" and "Code Review", but they are not included in the dashboard for some reason.

The only thing that is included in the dashboard are tasks with statuses in the "To do" STATUS CATEGORY. The "Done" and "In progress" status categories statuses are missing.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, actually, we can't see what the filter is doing from that screenshot.

Could you open up the filter in the issue navigator and show us the full text of the filter definition?

[Jackie Larena-Lacayo]

This is great! I just implemented it :-)