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Setting start and end dates on JIRA calendar

Kevin Tomasso

New to the community. I've setup a JIRA calendar in Team Calendar, and want to set a start and end date to show the duration of a scheduled task. When I go to each task from Team Calendar, the "to" date in the "When" field is disabled. I would assume this would default to "due date" set in JIRA, but it is simply the "created date" (meaning both dates are the same). Is there a way to set a start and end date from a JIRA project?

I've seen mention of a ghant chart plugin, which seems helpful, but would like to try using the defaults first if they can achieve our desired effect.

Accepted answers

Sherif Mansour

Hi Kiven,

Good question. Just to clarify a few things. At the moment:

* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start date of any issue date.

Out of the box in JIRA, you have "Created date" and "Due date". If you want, a lot of customers add custom fields in JIRA (e.g. Start Date, End Date, Deployment Date etc...) and you map them in Team Calendars

* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start and end date of any GreenHopper sprint

You just need to set the Sprint start and end date (which you do) when creating a GreenHopper sprint

* Team calendars lets you visualise the _due date_ for a JIRA version

Note: This is ONLY the due date at the moment. So it doesn't give you the duration. This is because JIRA did not have a concept of a "version start date" for a project. Only recently, JIRA now has a concept of a Version start date. So now we have the possiblity for team calendars to visualise the start and due date for a particular version for a project. You may want to watch /vote/comment on this ticket to stay updated: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1361

Hope that explans the many different things you can visualise! It can seem like a lot, but it's quite powerful. Do any of those meet your needs or explain it a bit better?

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Gary

Hi Kevin,

First, welcome to the community - glad to have a fresh face!

Since Projects are meant to be static, there is not a way to set start or end date for a project. We would reccomend using versions in JIRA:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Versions

Sprints with Greenhopper:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Sprint

or Epics with Greenhopper:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Setting+Up+Epics+for+your+Project

Cheers,

Gary

Mike Wells

I have the same issue as you; I also tried Gantt Charts, they were rather an overkill for the intended purpose. Plus the performance was an issue. I'll post here if I find something useful!

Sherif Mansour

Hi Kiven,

Good question. Just to clarify a few things. At the moment:

* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start date of any issue date.

* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start and end date of any GreenHopper sprint

You just need to set the Sprint start and end date (which you do) when creating a GreenHopper sprint

* Team calendars lets you visualise the _due date_ for a JIRA version

Hope that explans the many different things you can visualise! It can seem like a lot, but it's quite powerful. Do any of those meet your needs or explain it a bit better?

Tsol

Hey Sherif,

i'm evaluating team calendars and i was trying to visualize the duration of a JIRA issue according to Planned Start and Planned End fields from JIRA Agile. From what i have seen only the start and end date are marked and not the duration.

Do i miss something?

Thanx in advance,

Kostas

Sherif Mansour

@kostas you need to select "add start and end date" for a date range: http://cl.ly/image/1H2S0A0F1x0u

then you pick the planned start and planned end dates from the JIRA issue.

Adina Moldovan

Hi,

I'm dealing with a similar situation: I would like to use 'Team Calendars' to plan the sprints.

Therefore, I understand that I need a custom field to add the start date.

For the end date though, I wouldn't hardcode it. I think it would be more useful for the team to use the estimation given for the issue. Is there a way to dinamically see this as end date in 'Team Calendars'?

Thanks,

Adina

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