Show list of active subtasks on Dashboard

Peer Skipper

Is it possible to display a list of subtasks with the status “In Progress” on a Dashboard?

The list must span over multiple projects so we can see who is working on what in all the teams. We would like to display the Name of the task, the Assignee, Estimated time and Time spend.

Is that possible?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Yes.  Run an advanced search for

issuetype in subTaskIssueTypes() and status = "in progress"

(please rely on the autocomplete while you type that query, I've only had one coffee and working from my shoddy memory is not a great idea before three!)

Save this filter and give it a good name.

Go to the dashboard and add some gadgets that report on what you want. 

The obvious one is "filter statistics", as you'll be able to tell it to show any field you want.  It does have a limited range of issues though (trying to display more than the upper limit will make the dashboard far too slow to be usable).  You might want to consider other limits such as adding "and assignee = currentUser()" to make it shorter and more relevant to the user.

Some good overviews can be added with other gadgets.  A filter statistics gadget looking at project or assignee for example, or even a 2-dimensional one showing both of those.