How can I link directly to a specific planning board?

Mark McD

I'd like to be able to send a link to a specific planning board, showing a specific project, context and parameters (e.g. Version: 1.234 or Project Overview). Is it possible to generate a link to send over email on the page?

If it's possible but not easy, I don't mind writing a Greasemonkey plugin to do the job.

Not essential, but handy, would be the same request for any of the other boards.

Mark McD

It appears that it is possible to do it yourself! As I mentioned in the question, I don't mind a little bit of manual work, so here goes.

Take a base URL of your Jira instance and add "/secure/GotoBoard.jspa" to the end:

http://jira.intranet.xyz/secure/GotoBoard.jspa

Locate your project's ID - there are a number of ways to do this. I hit "Create Issue" and pick an issue type then take the 'pid' value from the URL. For example, if you have CreateIssue.jspa?pid=12345, then your project ID is '12345'. Add this to the end of the URL with the following string:

?selectedProjectId=12345

Then you'll need the Board ID - you can find that by hovering over the 2nd-level navigation (e.g. Planning Board > Version > Sprint 6) on the GH boards and looking for a URL like javascript:Boards.changeView('11111'). Add that number here.

&selectedBoardId=11111

Now add your context on the end here. Use "Default" if you don't want a specific context.

&contextName=Default

Set this one to true if you want 'Only My Issues'.

&assignedToMe=false

This one seems to control the middle drop-down in the 2nd-level GH navigation - the values are derived from the drop-down URLs (e.g. AssigneeBoard, ProjectBoard, ComponentBoard). Looks like it works in harmony with the 'selectedBoardId' field above.

&navInfo=VersionBoard

I haven't used this yet, but it might help with linking to charts.

&chartType=gh.chart.bissueburndown


Then concatenate all of the above:

http://jira.intranet.xyz/secure/GotoBoard.jspa?selectedProjectId=12345&selectedBoardId=11111&contextName=Default&assignedToMe=false&navInfo=VersionBoard

Sorted!

If anyone is able to expand further on this, please comment back here! If you're really stuck, you could probably check out the source for GotoBoard.