If anyone is interested, I made a simple php script that returns a json array, and using fullcalendar.io i rendered it. this works in conjunction with a custom due date field I set up in my Jira instance.
getDates.php Code
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://YOUR_COMPANY.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=filter=(CUSTOM FILTER ID OF ALL OPEN ISSUES)",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"Accept: application/json",
"Authorization: Basic ENTER_YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_API_TOKEN",
"Cache-Control: no-cache"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
exit();
} else {
$obj = json_decode($response);
}
class Event {}
$events = array();
foreach($obj->issues as $issue) {
if($issue->fields->customfield_10306 !== null) {
$e = new Event();
$e->id = $issue->id;
$e->title = "[" . $issue->key . "] " . $issue->fields->summary;
$e->url = "https://ticinocom.atlassian.net/browse/" . $issue->key;
$e->start = $issue->fields->(THIS IS THE DUE DATE CUSTOM FIELD);
$e->end = $issue->fields->(THIS IS THE DUE DATE CUSTOM FIELDcustomfield_10306;
$events[] = $e;
}
}
echo json_encode($events);
?>
Calendar.html Code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"
integrity="sha256-wS9gmOZBqsqWxgIVgA8Y9WcQOa7PgSIX+rPA0VL2rbQ="
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/3.9.0/fullcalendar.min.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/3.9.0/fullcalendar.print.css" media="print"/>
<script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- daypilot libraries -->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/3.9.0/fullcalendar.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style>
#calendar {
max-width: 1500px;
margin: 40px auto;
}
</style>
<title>Jira Due Date Calendar</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="calendar"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
// page is now ready, initialize the calendar...
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
eventClick: function(eventObj) {
window.open(eventObj.url);
return false;
},
defaultView: 'month',
themeSystem: 'bootstrap4',
header: {
left: 'prev,next today',
center: 'title',
right: 'month,agendaWeek,agendaDay,listMonth'
},
events: 'getDates.php'
})
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
And there you have it a simple offsite calendar for open issues.