JIRA Ninja Black Belt

Impressive! You have made it to the final stage of your JIRA Ninja training. All that stands between you and your black belt are these final tasks:

  • Search an Issue's Change History
  • Link Issues Together
  • Generate Pre-Built Reports 
  • Set Your JIRA Home Page

Search an Issue's Change History

Most of the JQL functions and operators used in advanced search reflect the current state of an issue, however it's also possible to search for issues based on their past status.

How to do it:

  1. Click on the 'Issues' link in the top navigation bar.
  2. Select the 'New' tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
  3. If there is a link for 'Switch to advanced,' click it.
  4. Include in your query the 'was,' 'was not,' or 'changed' operators to filter by issue status history.

The 'changed' operator allows you to find issues that had their assignee, status, or other field changed. To learn more about searching through issue history, check out the docs.

Linking two issues together makes it easy for someone viewing one of the issues to find the other. Choose different link types for different relationships, such as duplicate, related or blocking issues. There are also a number of custom link types.

How to do it:

  1. From one of the issues you'd like to link, open the linking dialog in one of two ways: select 'Link' from the 'More Actions' dropdown menu along the top of the issue, or.. if keyboard shortcuts are enabled, simply press '.' and type 'Link,' then press enter.
  2. Choose the link type to link the two issues together.
  3. Start typing the issue's key that you'd like to link to, or any word in the issue's summary, then choose it from the autocomplete dropdown.
  4. If you don't know the issue's key, click the plus icon next to the field.

For more information on issue linking, see the documentation.

Generate Pre-Built Reports

JIRA provides reports that show statistics for particular people, projects, versions, or other fields within issues.

How to do it:

  1. Open the 'Projects' dropdown menu in the main nav.
  2. Select the project you would like to generate reports for.
  3. Open the 'Reports' dropdown menu near the top-right of the screen.
  4. Select a report to generate.

Want to learn more? Check out the documentation. 

Set Your JIRA Home Page

The JIRA Home page is the page you land on after you login to JIRA. You can set your home page to the Dashboard, Agile tab, or the Issue Navigator. This should save you a few seconds every day.

How to do it:

  1. Click on your name in the top right corner to display the dropdown menu.
  2. Select your desired Home page in the section under 'My JIRA Home'.

Head on over to the documentation for more info.