Category: Introduction to Jira

Let's take a look at using date fields and operators with Jira's query language. There are a few 'gotchas' to watch out for when using date values. Having said that there are also some really useful functions that will help you identify exactly what you need from your date based JQL queries Now the most straight forward example is something along the lines of project = "DX" and createdDate > 2023-7-03 Important to take into account that “greater than" is taken as the start of day 23-08-03. Jira JQL with Dates So really this query really means project = "DX" and createdDate >= 2023-07-03 For clarity and to avoid confusion sometimes it's better to work with times as well. Adds...

Lables and Priorities In the last module we saw how to create and structue our Jira Projects. In this module our objective is to understand why we need labels and priorities. We’ll also look at setting project priority values and label values. Finally we’ll see how we can search for issues based on labels and make bulk updates to our Jira issues.  Why Do We Need Labels and Priorities? There are two other properties of an issue that will help you organise and track your issues. One is the ability to give an issue a priority category. The other is to give your issues one or more labels. Assigning lables and priorities helps you look, for example, for all...

We’ve looked what an issue is in Jira and how to create them. It’s great to be able to track our work as issues in Jira but the real power comes from Jira’s ability to group, organize and categorize these issues. When you start to get into 100’s, 1000’s or even 10,000’s of an issue the ability to focus just the issues you need becomes absolutely critical. Each Jira issue records a number of key pieces of information that allow us to categorize the issues. Those pieces of information can include the following: Project Components Releases Priority Status Labels Assignment So, for example, you might have an issue that is part of a particular software project, that is related to...

We’ve put together a series of 6 training modules that make up an introduction to Jira course. This course is focused on the basics of Jira. We’re covering the core concepts, the building blocks, that makeup Jira. This isn’t focused on any particular development methodology (like Agile) and we don’t go into configuring/using Jira to manage Agile projects here. We’re leaving that for a separate course. What we are doing is going through the core components of Jira and showing you what Jira is built on. It’ll give you the knowledge you need to deal with Issues and see how those issue records can be managed. We’re going to start out looking at what an Issue is (not any specific...