Using the default dashboard

This article will show you how to use the default dashboard in Jira Cloud.

Default dashboard

The default dashboard is a set of gadgets including: the current day’s logged work, watched issues, all tickets assigned to you, all DoD checklist items assigned to you and all the unresolved statuses your tickets are currently in. You may edit this dashboard and add your own gadgets to personalize it further if you wish.

Current day: Logged work

This section gives the user an awesome snapshot for the current day. If you are wanting to view weekly or monthly, then please go to this article, Using Tempo Timesheets for more information.

  1. This section shows the total number of logged hours for the current day. Each department has a choice to set their own minimum number of hours required for each work day.

  2. The current day is displayed in this section. You can use the previous and next arrows to view other days.

  3. Each issue/ticket you log time on will display in this section. The Title and Project and Issue key are located here. Clicking on the Issue key will open the issue in a new browser tab.

  4. The amount of time logged will appear for each issue type.

 

Watched issues

This section displays all the unresolved/open issues that you are watching.

  • Q. What does watching mean?

  • A. Watching issues is a great way to monitor the activity, status and comments on an issue. you do not have to be assigned and you do not need to be @mentioned, but you will still receive notifications

You may watch an issue by adding yourself or you may add other users as watchers to your own issue.

  • Open the issue.

  • Click on the eye icon in the top right.

  • Click either Start watching and/or Add watchers.

 

Assigned to me

This section displays all the issues across every project, Software and Service desks, that are assigned to you.

  1. The Priority field is determined by one of the managers of the project. The default is the medium setting depicted with the two yellow bars. You may hover over the icon to display a tool-tip.

  2. The Issue type and Issue key fields will provide you you details you will need to visually see which type of issue it is and which project it currently is in. You may also click the issue key to open the issue.

  3. The Summary field will display the title of the issue

  4. The Status field displays the current status the issue is in.

  5. By default the Updated field is set to sort the issues by most recently updated to least recently updated.

However, you may click the header of any column to sort how you wish.

 

 

Assigned checklist items

Items will display here for any issue that uses the DoD checklist feature and have @mentioned you for one or more checklist items.

This section does not allow you to edit the status of these items on this screen. You will have to click the Issue key: Summary link to open the issue. In the the open issue you can change statuses and update checklist items. All changes will display back here.

 

Assigned to me - statuses by issue count

This section is a great visual representation of all the issues assigned to you by the status they are currently in. The number of issues are counted for each status and displayed as a doughnut chart.

You may also click the # total issues link in the left corner of the gadget to view a filtered listing of all your assigned tom me issues in a detail view.

 

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