Is there any way that I can have a filter for a whole dashboard and not have to filter every gadget?

Question

I have a dashboard, for a project, and every time I have to update it, I have to adjust the filter of every gadget, in stead of having one filter for the whole dashboard. This happens to me every time I change sprints (every 2 weeks). Here it comes the 2nd question, and is: there's any way that I can have filter similar to: "FILTER EVERY ISSUE THAT IS IN THE CURRENT SPRINT".

Thanks!

Ivan Garcia _Appfire_ · Answer

Hi @Sofia Marchione

If you're considering trying an app to solve this, I'd suggest you try our app Dashboard Hub Pro.

With an intuitive Dynamic Filters bar, you can filter all gadgets at once with ease.

Marlene Kegel - codefortynine · Answer

Welcome to the community, @Sofia Marchione!

I am Marlene, product manager of Quick Filters for Jira Dashboards.

With our app you work with an Quick Controller gadget that filters all other Quick gadgets on your dashboard.

For your use case you could simply add a "sprint" dropdown filter to your Quick Controller (as it is shown in the screenshot).

If you want to test our app without installation you can visit our demo dashboards.

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Sofia Marchione -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The built-in dashboard gadgets do not support interconnecting them for their filters.  I believe there are marketplace addons which can do this.

Without seeing the specifics of your dashboard and gadgets used, other options could be:

For the current open sprint for a project, use the openSprints() function in your saved filter: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-functions/#openSprints--

For example:

project = myProjectName AND sprint IN openSprints()

You could chain your filters together, reducing the number of changes needed to the dashboard.  For example, first make a saved filter like this:

project = myProjectName AND sprint = "mySprint ABC"

When you save that filter, please note the filter id in the browser address.  Let's assume it is filter=12345.

When you make your other filters, reference that base filter, and add more criteria, like this:

filter=12345 AND status = "In Progress" AND assignee IS EMPTY

Now when updates are needed, only the first filter needs updates, with no changes to the dashboard gadgets.

Finally, a more complicated approach is to dynamically edit the filters using an automation rule.  This would call the Jira REST API functions to get, and update, the filter criteria, using the Send Web Request action.  An example scenario for this is a rule triggered on Sprint Started, which alters the dashboard filters.

Kind regards,
Bill