Welcome to the first in our series of blog posts where we highlight and review some of the powerful apps you can use to maximise the productivity of your team.

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About Custom Charts for Jira

Reporting on data is important in any organisation and and having the ability to easily create charts and diagrams which everyone can understanding is critical – after all, a picture is worth a thousand words. You can do this within Jira using a tool which provides powerful data visualisation. The app featured in this blog post is Custom Charts for Jira (for Cloud and Data Center), created by Old Street Solutions. Custom Charts for Jira is a powerful reporting app that everyone can use, helping to cut down on consulting efforts and boosting your daily productivity levels.

Purpose

Custom Charts for Jira allows users to effortlessly create beautiful charts and reports directly inside of a Jira dashboard. It exponentially expands upon the out-of-the-box chart functionality available in Jira. 

Old Street Solutions developed this app upon the core concept of maintainability, providing useful features that help to absolve organisations and other users alike of the big challenges encountered with reporting.

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Usability

Custom Charts for Jira has enabled customisation at every turn, ensuring you can create a dashboard for every occasion. You can extend and enhance your Jira dashboard with the app’s wide selection of powerful features:

Chart variety

• Nine different chart types, including line, bar, pie, table and more
• Charts are available in one or two dimensions
• Easily switch between light or dark mode

Full range of customisations

• Customise your charts to your hearts end with colour pickers, custom ordering, merging segments, renaming values and more
• Speed up chart creation time with chart templates

Focus on data

• Simple Search gadget allows users to dynamically filter charts to see the Jira data that's relevant to them
• Issue List gadget allows users to generate a list of Jira issues on a dashboard
• No issue data is kept on the app’s systems so you can be sure your data is safe

Share your charts

• Simply share entire dashboards with a link to internal and external users on Jira Cloud

Support fields

• Support is available for third party apps, JSM Request Types, organisations and channels
• Custom Jira Query Language and Saved Filters options are available for more advanced users
• Also available as a separate app in Confluence

Limitations

Old Street Solutions has covered pretty much everything one would need!  The app adheres to its maintainability focus, working actively to develop features that meet user needs. You can view features the team is currently working on and suggest new ideas via their Public Feature Roadmap.

Recommended for

Custom Charts for Jira has a streamlined and straightforward user interface which allows everyone, from beginners to power users to create powerful, useful and engaging data visualisation in a few clicks. With a Custom Charts reporting dashboard at your fingertips, you can stay on track with your work and offer your team and managers an at-a-glance view of your progress whenever they need.

Learn more

For more information about Custom Charts for Jira, please click this link or reach out to our team.