JIRA gadget that works with text fields

[Sebastian Krzewiński]

Hi All

I'm looking for a gadget which will works with text field. Gadget should be similar to two-dimensional gadget or issue statistics. I know that standard jira gadgets don't work with text fields but maybe you know some add-ons.

Regards,

Seba

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Text fields are not "statable" - a computer can't know whether any entry is supposed to be unique or not.  They have to assume that every text entry is unique, so gadgets that report on them are essentially useless, as every value could be different.   A pie chart based on a text field simply needs to show a series of 1-sized segments, one per issue included.

That said, there are a couple of apps that try to make statable text fields.   I am afraid I have yet to see any of them scale well enough beyond a few thousand issues (although they don't fail quite so badly with dates).

You should move these text fields to be listed fields instead.  Or look at scripting something that will categorise the text and place the category in a select field.

[Hernan Halabi - Elite IT Consulting Group · Accepted solution]

I agree with @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

if you still want to look for those apps, you should check Eazybi, that tool should allow you do what you are looking for.