How to put a clock/time on one issue or task?

Pernille Kjær Aagaard

I need to have some sort of time starting when I move one task from one column to another. So fx when I move task 1 from "Not Started" to "In Progress". A new clock should then start if it moves from "In Progress" to "Test". I need an automatic clock to start, so we can see if more than a specific amount of hours are used on the task. I can see that there are several add ons to Jira but I think there is also a build in function for this.

Can this be done?

Andy Heinzer

Hi Pernille,

I understand you are looking to track the time in which an issue has been in a specific status.   Natively, within Jira Core and Jira Software, this is not something that Jira can display on an issue itself.   But within Jira Service Desk, you do gain SLA functions that can be made to track that information based on a configuration you can setup as to when to start/stop that timer.  This function though is specific to Service Desk projects.  More details on this for both

• Jira Service Desk Cloud
• Jira Service Desk Server

However if you're not wanting to use a Service Desk project for some reason, then it might be a better solution to use some third party plugin to Jira to try to track this instead.  I'm sure there are several options within Marketplace, however the one I am personally most familiar with would be Time in Status. 

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any concerns about this topic.

Andy