Jira dashboard popolarity values and archieved projects

[Markku]

Hi,

I have a question regarding to dashboard popularity feature. What means if dashboard popularity value is set 0 (zero)? Does it means that there are no any person following this dashboard? So if I archieve the project I want that project "disappeared" from the users. 

I want also that no one can "jump" accidently to this archieved project from the linked issues, filters, views or any functionality in Jira or Confluence. 

How can I be sure that all the views and connections to archived project are blocked from users?  

Regrads,

Markku

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

People can flag a dashboard as a favourite so that it appears on the list of dashboards they can go to in the dashboard menu.

That's all that the popularity value shows - how many people have it as a favourite.

Archiving projects will have no effect on the dashboards themselves, they're not linked to projects directly.  But if you archive something that appears on a dashboard, it will not be shown on the dashboard any more.

[Markku]

Thanx Nic for your answer. So popularity is only like "display flag" - no project linked connection directly. So popularity has no effect to project itself and when I archive project, linked issues, filters and dashboards (links) are also inactivated and cannot be used anymore.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, there's no direct connection between issue links, filters, or dashboards and projects.  Issue links, filters and dashboards do not belong to projects.

They will be unaffected by archiving a project, other than they will stop reporting on the issues you have archived.