Team Wallboard Gadget

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Overview

This gadget displays the wallboard with the work items of a specified agile board. It supports both Scrum and Kanban board types of team-managed and company-managed projects.

You can use this gadget to see what your team is working on.

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It shows the issues with their key, summary, assignee, priority, and current estimate. It can also display sub-tasks and epics. Optionally, you can apply one or more of the board’s quick filters or to display swim-lanes by various criteria.

Configuration

The settings of this gadget are divided in 2 tabs:

  • Data tab - contains the required settings of the gadget, such as title and data source

  • More Settings tab - contains the optional settings, such as card colors

Data tab

On this tab you can configure the required settings of the gadget.

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Setting

Description

Setting

Description

Gadget title

Choose what to display in the title bar of the gadget.

Data source

Select the agile board to be displayed. The gadget displays only the issues from the selected board that are visible to the current Jira user.

You can also select a filter or a JQL as the data source. In this case the gadget will display the issues in the form of a Kanban board having the issues grouped in 3 columns by their status categories: To Do, In Progress and Done.

Sprint

Choose what sprint to display on the wallboard. If Active sprint(s) is selected, the gadget will display the issues of the active sprint; if the board has multiple active sprints, all the issues from these sprints are displayed. This option applies only to the Scrum boards.

Quick filters

Choose to apply one or more quick filters of the selected board, for limiting the items displayed. This option is only available for the Cloud version.

Estimation field

Choose the field that contains the issue estimate or "None" if you don't want the estimate to be displayed.

Swimlanes

Choose if the gadget should display swim-lanes or not. A swim-lane is a horizontal categorization of issues on the board. You can use swim-lanes to help you distinguish tasks of different assignee, epics, priorities, etc. This option is only available for the Cloud version.

More Settings tab

On this tab you can configure the optional settings of the gadget.

Setting

Description

Setting

Description

Show sub-tasks

Check this if you want the sub-tasks to be also displayed on the wallboard.

Show sprint info

Check this if you want to display the sprint name along with the sprint timeline.

Use compact-size cards

Check this if you want to display the cards with a smaller size.

Cards color

Customize the color of the cards. You can pick a color for each issue hierarchy level (Epics > Stories, tasks, bugs > Sub-Tasks).

Refresh interval

Choose how often the gadget will refresh automatically.

Related blog articles

The following blog articles provide more information on how to use this gadget.