Displaying WBS Gantt-Chart in Jira

Navigation bar

Use WBS Gantt-Chart in the Jira navigation bar.

Select the Gantt, filter or project you wish to display from Recent WBS Gantt-Chart, Recent Gantts, Filter, or Recent Projects.

Filters displays issues which are Assigned to Me (Unresolved) and Favorite Filters.

If there are more than five items to display in Filters or Recent projects, the sixth item and onwards will not be displayed. Instead, more... is shown on the menu.

When more... is selected, a list view of Filters and Recent projects will be displayed. Select a filter or a project by clicking the link. WBS Gantt-Chart will appear.

In Gantt, you can display a list of Gantts by selecting View all Gantts.

If you click on a Gantt name in this list, the WBS Gantt-Chart will be displayed.

URL

You can also display WBS Gantt-Chart by entering the URL directly in the address bar of the browser. The URL format is:

[Jira URL]/secure/Main.jspa?filter= filter value

When accessing by the URL without first logging into Jira, you will be redirected to the log-in screen.

To display "Assigned to Me (unresolved)" issues

* If Jira is running in http://localhost:8080/ , the URL in the address bar shows “-1” after “filter=”. Assigned to Me (unresolved) will be displayed, as in the screenshot below.

To display a specified filter

* If Jira is running in http://localhost:8080/, the selected filter is displayed on-screen in Jira, and is also displayed in WBS Gantt-Chart, as shown below.

To display a specified project

* If Jira is running in http://localhost:8080/ , “PROJ_PROJECT KEY” is displayed after “filter” in the URL.

Opening WBS Gantt-Chart via the project navigation menu

Click WBS Gantt-Chart in the project navigation menu, as shown below.

Opening WBS Gantt-Chart from an issue detail screen

WBS Gantt Chart can also be displayed from an issue detail screen. Click the link Browse this issue in WBS Gantt-Chart in the issue detail screen.

You will see that that the selected issue is highlighted in the WBS Gantt-Chart screen, as shown below.

Changing modes

How to change the mode

You can switch modes as follows:

1. Click on

2. Select Standard mode or Issue template mode. 

When you are in Issue Template mode, the background of the operations bar turns yellow.

Displaying issue details

You can display issue details where the Gantt chart is the usual default display.

There are two ways to display issue details.

• Click on the issue name in the WBS
• Press "t" on the keyboard as a shortcut 

There are also two ways of displaying Gantt charts with the issue details hidden.

• Click the "×" button at the top right of the issue details screen
• Press "t" on the keyboard as a shortcut 

If you edit an issue in Issue details, the changes are reflected in the WBS (with the exception of certain items).

Changing the default view

Users can configure Sort, View Unit, and Issue View when WBS Gantt-Chart is opened.

To configure the default view, use the User Preferences dialog. Please refer to this document for more information about user preferences.

Restore the last view (most recent view)

If Restore the last view is selected, the last issue view and display start date are restored, as well as the view unit and sort.

Display according to the settings below

The view unit and sort are displayed according to the configured settings. The issues are displayed in collapsed format, and the display start date is the current date.

Setting a language

The language in WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira is automatically set to the same language as preferred language set in Jira 's user profile. However, for languages not available in WBS Gantt-Chart for Jira, it will be set to English.