Gadget title

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

Data source

Select the type of Data source used by the gadget:

• The agile Board of your team.

• A Saved filter containing the issues that you want to track. Make sure that the specified filter is shared with the users who will also visualize this gadget.

• A JQL query that returns the issues you want to be processed by the gadget.

Calculate by

Specify on which criteria the calculation is to be performed. You can choose between:

• Issue Count - the default value; use this if you want the chart to be made by the number of issues.

• Story Points - use this if you want the chart to be made by summing up the Story Points of the issues in each band. If the issues are from team-managed projects (aka next-gen projects), select Story Point Estimate instead.

• Original Time Estimate - use this if you want the chart to be made by summing up the Original Time Estimate of the issues in each band; the values will be displayed in hours.

• Other numerical custom field defined in your Jira instance.

Include the sub-tasks

Check this option if you want the sub-tasks from the selected board or filter to be included in the calculation.

Time interval

Represents the time interval displayed by the gadget.

You can choose from multiple options:

Custom dates - choose this option if you want to manually enter a Start date and an End date.

A number of days back - By choosing this option, the gadget will use a rolling time interval with a number of days back to the current day.

Dates of a project release - Choose this option if you want the gadget to use the start and end dates of an existing project release (added on the Releases page of a Jira project). Make sure the selected release has a Start date and End date set. Any subsequent changes to the release dates made on the project's Releases page will be automatically reflected in the gadget, without the need to reconfigure it.

Be aware that you can also check the Continue to display data after end date option in the More Settings tab if you want the chart to still display data even if the end date has passed.

Intervals of

Indicates the length of the intervals displayed on the horizontal axis.

Chart bands are based on

Specify by which criteria the bands displayed in the chart are determined. You can choose between:
The issue status categories - the default value. When using this option, the chart displays 3 bands:

• Done - counts all the issues with the status category "done" (the green-colored statuses from Jira)

• In progress - counts all the issues with the status category "in progress" (the blue-colored statuses from Jira)

• New - counts all the issues with the status category "new" (the gray-colored statuses from Jira)

The issue statuses - when using this option, each workflow status that is mapped on the columns of the selected board has a corresponding band in the chart. If a filter is selected, the chart displays a band for each of the workflow statuses reached by the issues from the filter.

The columns of the selected board - when using this option, each column of the board has a corresponding band in the chart, displaying the number of issues in that column.
The category of the columns in the selected board - When using this option, the chart displays 3 bands:

• Done - counts all the issues in the last column of the selected board.

• In progress - counts all the issues in the middle column(s) of the selected board.

• New - counts all the issues in the first column of the selected board.

The issue types - when using this option, each issue type has a corresponding band in the chart, displaying the number of issues with that type.

The values of this field - when using this option, each value of the specified has a corresponding band in the chart, displaying the number of issues having that value.

Show legend

Check this if you want the chart legend to be displayed.

Enable scroll zoom

Check this if you want to be able to zoom-in while scrolling with the mouse wheel over the chart.

Continue to display data after end date

Check this option if you want the chart to still display data even if the end date passed.

Hide weekends

Check this option if you want the chart not to show weekend days (Saturday and Sunday).

Display horizontal gridlines

Check this option if you want the chart to display gridlines for the vertical axis.

Refresh cached data at next display

This gadget uses data caching for faster display, which means that some data resulted after processing are saved and reused next time the gadget is loaded. If you check it, the cache of the gadget will be deleted and recreated at the next reload. This setting is not persistent.

Automatically assign colors

Check this if you want the chart to automatically assign colors for the series.

Custom colors

Select any custom color you want the series to be displayed on by either entering the color's hexadecimal code or picking a color.

By default, only the common series are listed, but you can use the Add (+) button to add additional series to the table.

You can also use the Copy and Import buttons to copy and import the color configuration to gadgets of the same type.