How to set "Updated Date" as "Work Log" date? How to visualize logged time per month in a bar chart?

Question

Hi everyone,

i would like to create a filter in Jira to set the "Updated date" as the "WorkLog date".

The reason is that i'd like to show my logged time per month in a Jira Dashboard.

Let's say in the "Multiple Filters Bar Chart", i could chose "Created" for the date field. The problem then is that when i create a task e.g. in June but start work on it July, my work log will then appear for June in the bar chart.

The other option is that i could chose the "Updated date" as date field for my dashboard-gadget. The problem then is that when i put a comment on the ticket e.g. in August after completion of the work in July, the "Updated Date" will change to August.

Therefore, i thought asout setting the "Updated date" to "Work log date".

Any ideas how to solve the problem?

Thanks,

Torben

Torben Dimter_pbg2th · Answer

Hi Alexander,

thanks for answering.

Yes, I know that already and I'm very fine with this.

Actually I'd like to use this for my bar chart visualization, because there I can only select fields as "Updated" or "Created" for date fields. The problem then is that if somebody e.g. puts a comment on a issue after logging the work, this will be the new updated date, so that it's quite hard to assign logged work to the date when the work was actually done because any changes on the issue affect the "updated date".

BR

Alexander Eck [Tempo] · Answer

Torben,

adding a worklog is also updating the Jira issue (and the Dateupdated field).

But maybe you know this already?

BR

Torben Dimter_pbg2th · Answer

Cause on a standard Jira-Dashboard, i have many options for a date field value in charts, but none of them is like "worklogDate"