Color coding in Jira Dashboard

Question

Hey everyone,

I want to build a Jira Dashboard and display all the epics/stories along with the due date, using a simple JQL. However, i am looking for suggestions or solutions in Jira dashboard, if i can display the jira issues which have past due date in RED, approaching due date (may be 2 or 3 days to due date) in ORANGE and the on track items in GREEN.

Can anyone help please?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

There are multiple apps that can add "dynamic colors" to Jira dashboards, issue navigator and other screens. Most of them rely on adding colors to labels, see them.

You could easily implement what you want this way:

* Add a Jira Cloud automation which will add the labels "on track", "due in 3d", etc. by comparing the issue's "Due date" to the current date. You may want to run the rule every day once, and also at issue creation or issue update.
* Using one of the apps above, you can add color to the labels managed by step 1.

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Achyuta Rao

welcome to the community!

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, I think you'd like 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 range of advanced features, including support for conditional formatting.

With conditional formatting, you can define conditions on your issues, and if these conditions are fulfilled, set their background and text color, like so:

I'm only using one condition here, but you can configure as many conditions and colors as you want.

Conditional formatting also works great in combination with JXL's other advanced features, such as (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), or sum-ups.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

Tansu Akdeniz · Answer

Hi @Achyuta Rao

Welcome to the community.

Jira doesn't have this feature in dashboards (you can search marketplace add-ons).

Alternatively, you can change card colors in boards from Board Settings > Card Colors. Select query type and write duedate based jql's such as "due < now()".

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/customize-cards/