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 that contains the issues that you want to track in the chart, make sure that the filter is shared with a Jira project or My Organization. Check Include the sub-tasks if you want the sub-tasks from the selected board, filter or JQL to be included in the calculation.

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

Time interval

Represents the time interval displayed by the gadget.

You choose from multiple options:

Custom dates - choose this option if you want to manually enter the Start date and End date of the release.

A number of days back - By choosing this option, the gadget will have 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.

Calculate by

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

• Story Points - the default value; use this option if the issues are estimated in Story Points. If the issues are from team-managed projects (aka next-gen projects), select Story Point Estimate instead.

• Original Time Estimate - use this if you use time estimates; the calculation will be done in hours.

• Issue Count - use this if you want the calculation to be done by the number of issues.

• Other numerical custom field defined in your Jira instance - pickup the numerical custom field that you use to track or estimate the issues.

"WIP" means

Specify how to consider the issue as being work-in-progress (WIP).

Trendline

Check this option to display a line on the chart that reveals the overall direction of the data. The trendline can be:

• Linear - a best-fit straight line that shows if the average cycle time is increasing or decreasing at a steady rate.

• Polynomial - is a curved line, determined based on an order 2 polynomial formula, which is recommended when the data fluctuates.

Show legend

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

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.

The vertical axis always starts at 0

Check this option if you want the vertical axis to always start at zero. If unchecked, the chart will automatically determine the minimum value of the vertical axis for optimal visibility.

Display horizontal gridlines

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

Enable scroll zoom

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

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.

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