Sum of original estimate in issues by filter

[Janne Enberg]

I'd like to get a total sum of original estimate for issues (by filter condition) in a project that would do something like this:

SELECT SUM(originalEstimate) FROM ... WHERE project="Project Name" AND status IN("Resolved", "Closed");

Is something like this in any way possible from Jira? I managed to write a real SQL query to my MySQL database that gives me the result, but it's a bit clumsy compared to doing it from Jira.

[Tomáš Vrabec · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

founded built-in solution.

Its a workaround, but its working.

1) Create JQL filter returning issues you would like to sum

2) Create dashboard

3) Add "Workload Pie Chart" Gadget

4) Set it for that created filter & estimations you would like to see.

Works for me.

[Gabi Nir]

Hi,

When I create the pie chart like you said they only relevant option is the assignees but then it sums up the number of issues and not (ofcourse remaining).

Looking at the rest of options to choose grouping by the results, there is no effort estimation.

Can you advise?

Thanks!

[Tomáš Vrabec]

Attaching screen of my settings.

[Gabi Nir]

It solved my problem!

Thank you!!! :-)

[SvenM]

Perfect solution. Thank you very much, Tomáš!

[Philip Dang: Insurance-VN]

Thank you so much. That's the great solution.

[Balakrishna M]

Great , Its a work around , but still it met my requirements

[Николай Чернов]

Thanks! 

[Sébastien Sacard]

Thank you ! 

[Cormac Smith]

Just a note that "Current Estimate" reports the stat referred to in the JIRA issue work log as "Remaining Estimate." Fortunately, that is exactly what I needed. Thanks to Tomas!

[Ahsan]

This exactly what I need. I am using Cloud version of Jira. For some reason I am not seeing the "Workload Pie Chart" Gadget. Do you know how I can access it?

[Michele.Primmer]

I can't see Workload Pie Chart either, we are on the server version. Please advise? Is this yet another thing we have to pay for?

thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The workload pie chart is available in Cloud and Server.

[Michele.Primmer]

When I go to ADD GADGET >> ALL>>SEARCH there is only one pie chart available and it's not the Workload Pie chart...it's only the chart with the one Statistic Type field.

thanks for any insight on where to find it

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, found it. 

It's always installed on Cloud by default, but Server installs need to add the "Jira Charting plugin" - this is one of 5 I always install so I forget exactly what charts it provides.

[Michele.Primmer]

ok, will look for that plug in - thanks!

[Ersen Kavak]

When summing up hours is so central to Agile workflow, not having this in default JIRA does not make sense. The plugin is good, but extra payment feels weird.

[David Skreiner]

If you have ScriptRunner, this JQL query should show you the overall remaining workload for the current user:

project = PROJECT and assignee = currentuser() and issueFunction in aggregateExpression("Total Estimate for all Issues", "originalEstimate.sum()", "Remaining work", "remainingEstimate.sum()")

The documentation is here:

https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GRV/Scripted+JQL+Functions#ScriptedJQLFunctions-AggregateExpressions

[Linus Lindroth]

Very nice!

[Abyakta Lenka]

Very Nice , But How do you display this in confluence page or any where else .

[Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_]

Hey,

we recently released a plugin that calculates totals... You might want to check it out:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.cps.sumUp

Cheers

Christian

[Angelos]

It would have been great if SumUp included "Original Time Estimate" in the fields it can sum up :)

[Karl Gram]

Great app for a great price. If only this was built in to JIRA already... Thank you for existing, sumUp.

[drabiger]

I just added a Chrome extension to the Chrome webstore that shows the summary of remaining estimates in Jira scrum boards, if you show the remaining estimates per issue: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/estimations-sum-for-jira/mmbocjepfajlidapdnikdjebbdfjgbki

[F]

Would also love to have a SUM function in JQL.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

JQL is not SQL. It is exclusively designed for finding issues, it has nothing to say about the output (the line blurs slightly with the "order by" but that's actually still separate from what JQL does)

Think of it as two separate parts. You do the search in JQL, and that gives you a list of matching issues. That's all it does.

If you want to see that output, you have to hand that filter to a display mechanism. Jira has loads of these - broadly the issue navigator, gadgets, reports. The display mechanism then reads and formats the data on the issues in whatever way you want.

So, there's no way to do this in a JQL query, because JQL tells Jira nothing about the output. You need to find a reporting mechanism. Have a look at the issue navigator and the "sum" fields (prefixed with sigmas in the "add column" drop down list). The project reports might tell you something, as well as some gadgets. I suspect none of them will do quite what you want, as they're all generalised, and you may need to write something.

[Janne Enberg]

Yes, I understand JQL != SQL, and knew it is not possible to do this with JQL, which is why I said "in any way possible from Jira" .. I might take a look in the Jira plugin database

[boardtc]

Any luck finding a plugin to do this? It should be basic functionality on the new v6 rapidboard.

[Olesia Hirnyk]

The same problem...

I need to receive sum of Remeining time for all tasks assigned to currentUser()

:(

[Daniel Morgenstern]

I ran into this problem a lot of times, so I decided to build a small solution that doesn't need any extensions.

I hosted the code on GitHub: https://github.com/dmstern/jira-hacks

Feel free to star, fork, contribute, share. :)

[Daniel Morgenstern]

Sorry, repost wasn't intended. I just wanted to edit my answer and then it suddenly got auto-saved.

[Daniel Morgenstern]

I ran into this problem a lot of times and decided to build a simple solution that works without any extensions and hosted the code on GitHub:

https://github.com/dmstern/jira-hacks

Feel free to fork, star, contribute, share. :)

*Edit: I deleted the manual and the code because the jira forum broke it. You can get the current maintained version on GitHub*

If you encounter any bugs, please file an issue on GitHub

[Pablo Osorio da Silva]

Hi.... I was with high expectation, but unfortunately it did not work for me. There seems to be this error after pressing the bookmark: "Estimated remaining effort for the displayed issues: NaN PT.".

Any hint here? Tks

[Pablo Osorio da Silva]

I also tried the Calculate Cost script, and this did run, although after asking me to set €/h it respond: "Estimatet cost for displayed issues: NaN €."

[Daniel Morgenstern]

@Pablo Osorio da Silva 

Do the issues in your filter/search have remaining estimations in the time format (not story points)?

[Daniel Morgenstern]

@Pablo Osorio da Silvacould you please file an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/dmstern/jira-hacks/issues

I would like to investigate and help you with that issue.

[Korayem]

Not the fastest solution, but I export JQL results to CSV, open Excel and do whatever I want from there

Note that time columns (original estimate, remaining, logged) are shown in seconds, so divide their values by 3600 to convert to hours

[Mukesh Singhal]

I want to see story points loaded for each sprint for planning purpose. The gadget Workload Pie Chart do not show Story Points or any other number filed or custom fields that can be summed up.

Any thoughts

[christopher_griggs]

yeah, this is really annoying, and something you would expect by default. Rally has a nice way to total while planning. Also, the solution suggested, I don't have any sort of gadget called "Workload Pie Chart" - it's not 'built in'. So... 

[Melody White]

When you open a Dashboard and click on Gadgets in the top right hand corner,  it does not load all the gadgets immediately. You have to click Load more gadgets and then scroll to the bottom of the list.  It should be the last option. 

[philippos]

Hello,

Is there any update on this? A plug in which sums the original/actual estimates?

[Antonio Duarte]

I have the same problem. How can I add these values and keep them "available" to make some calculations that I want to put in some reports?

Besides, the info I want to add is the total time spent by the issue, since its beginning until its closure.

As I have seen so far, the sumUp add-on adds only numeric fields.

Any help, please?

[steven.schafer@nike.com]

I can see this on the main dashboard as a option for adding a field, yet I can't write a filter showing the Sum of values. I'd love to say where sum(timeoriginalestimate) is 0, highlight these issues in my filter. I'm using with sub-tasks where the hours are actually estimated.

Any thoughts on how to fix would be ideal!

[Gerard Cattin]

This is a high item for me as well. I use subtasks, and being able to tell if subtasks exist or if they have any aggregate time allocation is important to understand work in sprint not yet accounted for.

[philippos]

Any news on this? It is unbelievable that a plug-in to sum estimates per user in a release does not exist!

[boardtc]

It would be nice if this was default or a plugin was added. The way I do this right now is to add the orig estimate column in the issue navigator and move it over near the start. That way a tot up can be done easily enough, e.g:

[Russ]

I would also like to find an answer to this. Currently I'm being forced to export into excel to do this..... and I HATE spreadsheets.

A standard "Provide Column totals" tickbox on the display gadget would be perfect fo this.