How to create a custom field which can show number of days since last updated ?

ABHINAV JONNADA

Hello,

I'm supposed to make a Bug Analysis Dashboard, which is basically I make filters and spit out appropriate charts. One of the requirements are:

- Include number of days since last updated 

-  and etc.

I'm assuming this would involve writing a script or using plugins. I can't use plugins because it requires admin access to it and I can't get admin access or ask for it.

I've no idea how to do this because its been only a week I was introduced to this project and JIRA/JQL

 

Could you suggest a way to solve this challenge, please?

 

Jamie Echlin [Adaptavist] 

 @Alexey Matveev @Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] @[deleted]

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I am sorry, but there is bad news here. 

Jira does not do a lot of calculations for you.  It does, of course, store an "updated" date (it's an issue tracker, tracking updates matter to it), but it really does show you "last updated", not "days since".    You'll get data like "last updated on the 3rd July 2018", not "9 days ago".

If you want to do that sort of translation, you are right, you will need code of some sort.  Yes, this does mean writing a script, as that's a better option than writing a whole App to do it, but there is no scripting in Jira, which means you will need to install a plugin to provide the ability to script.