How can I group statuses to report on a Jira Dashboard?

[James Lovell]

Hi,

I have a project with a several statuses.

What I'd like to do is create a dashboard with a simple bar chart, but I want to group together some of the statuses. For example, I want to group together the statuses "Ready to start", "In Progress", and "QA", so that they're represented by a single bar of the chart, with another bar representing "Testing", and a third bar representing "Done" and "Abandoned".

Is there a way to do this with filter and dashboard functionality? What's the best way to achieve this?

(my current plan is to create a new field to do the grouping and run filters off that, but I'm wondering if there's a better way)

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi James - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You will probably need to create a custom field for a single pick list type. Then create a value for Type 1 and Type 2 or whatever you want to call them. 

Then you would need to set the value of that field with an automation rule when the issue moves into the corresponding status. 

Then you can add a Pie Chart or other type gadget to show the groupings.

[James Lovell]

Thanks John - I had a feeling that would be the case! I have set up a new field and some automation to achieve this.