Howto automatically show jira reports on team-monitor

Question

We would like to show some of the jira reports (like sprint progress etc) on a common screen in the team room.

Is there any automated way to do this in Jira (like always to show the current sprint status)

My preferred way, would be to login automatically (without user intervention) into a jira-account, and simply show the relevant report, but it does not seem to be possible to login automatically (with the google type login, where username and password are on separate screens)

Best Regards

Hans-Ole Larsen

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E.L. Fridge · Answer

Hi Hans,

You're probably using Jira cloud, then.  We have converted our Jira server instance to use our single sign-on, but I believe the stock login for server was single page the last time I looked at it.

As a developer we sometimes use Selenium and web driver to automatically login to sites for testing.  Perhaps you could write a python script that would log into the app for you with a two-step process.  You could then run the script after the machine boots?  Just throwing out ideas here...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21186327/fill-username-and-password-using-selenium-in-python

Hans-Ole Larsen · Answer

Hi

Thank you for your response.

I will try your dashboard suggestion.

Regarding login, we are not using Google-login, but normal username/password.

What I tried to describe is, that if the HTML-form includes both username and password on ONE HTML-page, then it is normally trivially easy to make an auto-login.

But Jira splits it in two forms (where you do not enter both username and password at the same time).

E.L. Fridge · Answer

Hi Hans,

We have done something similar to this by setting up a service account that isn't tied to a specific user in Jira.  It only has access to the projects we want to report on. Then, we've set up a dashboard with the information we want to show. You'll find that dashboards can be displayed on a monitor in wallboard mode, which is full-screen and has a darker appearance that is easier to read.  You can also have multiple dashboards on multiple tabs and have the browser auto-rotate through the tabs every so often - Chrome has several good plugins like "revolver" that can do this.

As for auto login, this really depends on how you have your accounts configured.  Since it sounds like you are doing this through a Google integration, can't you use a service account and ask it to "remember me" so it doesn't prompt for login every time?  We don't really worry about this, and if the wallboard computer is rebooted for updates or something someone will just log back in.  The browser can save the credentials anyway so it's just a matter of clicking "sign-in" again.