How do I report on Components?

Question

Hi,

We are using the components feature to define different parts of our software and architecture.

The main outcome we want to achieve is to monitor estimates vs actuals against these components. This is because parts of the software/architecture stack are legacy and it would be beneficial to report how long it takes to develop in each component so we can build business cases to improve the legacy areas and/or improve estimations when certain components are involved.

Thank you.

John Funk · Answer

Hi Joshua - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Can you post a screenshot of exactly what you would like the report to show? Or describe in more detail?

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Joshua Davies

welcome to the community!

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

With these, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views and reports - you can also sum up and group by any other issue field(s), configure different sum-up styles, etc. etc.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

Joshua Davies_ba997f · Answer

FWIW, I found a manual solution by creating a filter and exporting to .csv to do any reporting.

Not ideal, but it is a work around.

Open to any further suggestions anyone may have!