Re-use dashboards by adding dynamic filtering capability

[Januka Wijesinghe]

My use case : 

For each release, I have to have a dashboard for that particular release. This dashboard contains data from multiple filters.  With each release, the only changing variable would be the "Fix version".  

Currently, I create new filters with the new fix version and then make a new dashboard to showcase that (editing past filters is not a solution since those dashboards should show data related to that particular fix version) 

What I ideally need is just one dashboard. But at the top I should have a dropdown to select Fix version. Once I select it, all the filters in the dashboard get updated. In this way, I don't have to remake dashboards or filters. 

[Januka Wijesinghe · Accepted solution]

Cannot be done without an external plugin. Can be done with this on JIRA Cloud : https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220136/quick-filters-for-jira-dashboards

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Januka Wijesinghe 

Just to confirm your use case:

• When do you show/review information on the dashboard: before the release occurs (during development), or after the release has deployed?
• What is the format of your version naming?  For example, is it number-based, date-based, alphabetic only, or some combination of those?
• Which gadgets are you using on your dashboard?

Thanks!

[Jack]

Without an addon I wonder if the following might work?

… fixVersion in unreleasedVersions()

obviously this would require that you only maintain a single unreleased version which would be your current release that you’re working on. If this is not an option then consider an add-on. I seem to recall there’s one that supports dynamic filtering.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Januka Wijesinghe 

Yes, and... to what Jack suggested is to use earliestUnreleasedVersion() in your dashboard filters.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/advanced-search-reference-jql-functions/#Advancedsearchingfunctionsreference-earliestUnreleasedVersionearliestUnreleasedVersion--

Best regards,

Bill