Where did days in column go?

[Deleted user]

There used to be a checkbox for showing days in column on issues in an active sprint. This seems to have disappeared in our cloud instance.

Does anyone know if this is a configuration issue or has the functionality been removed from Jira Cloud?

[Admin]

I would say that its more of a limitation of a development cycle that is driven by requests and votes. Once installed people are unlikely to vote to improve the install process. Those who fail at the installation stage are never heard from again.

The problem can be seen in the Confluence MySQL docs, which detail the idea that the system defaults of the MySQL server should be set to meet the needs of Confluence. Using that logic would mean an independent MySQL install per application. As I've done the DBA role in the past I can tell you that any developer asking for such changes would be turned down, and only if I had free time would I try and understand why they were asking. For Confluence there seems to be no real reason for such a change now (there may have been in the past).

[Norman Abramovitz]

That would be nice, but a conscious decision needs to be made across product lines and that is not very common in the industry yet even after 65 years. Sometimes it just takes time to move an improvement through all the product roadmaps.

I beleive Atlassian is moving in this direction though with a common framework, plugin development and UI guidelines. Their mindset is in the right place to make this idea happen.