Can I track the Idea progress using a Release from Jira Software?

[Thiago Pinheiro]

I just started using JPD and noticed we can track the delivery using other cards/issues from Jira Software. I started using epics for that but it does not fit in our scenario since a deliverable from JPD does not match the Epic items, because, our items being delivered in a version/release might be in different epics.

So can we link a release to a JPD Idea for tracking the delivery ?  

[Rohan Swami]

Hi @Thiago Pinheiro thanks for your question.

I'm curious about how you would like this to work. Would you like to link an idea to a version/release as an alternative to epics? For example if an idea has 2 releases, do you want the delivery progress bar you see for that idea to aggregate the delivery progress across those 2 releases?

[Thiago Pinheiro]

Exactly! I haven't thought about multiple releases, but I suppose it would be helpful, in the same way that we can link multiple epics/issues.

[Rohan Swami]

@Thiago Pinheiro thanks, I've recorded your feedback for our future reference.

[marian_nedelchev]

@Thiago Pinheiro , this is a very good request. Do you have any feedback about it?

[Andy Nortrup]

I haven't tested, but you can track a date to a date on the implementation issues. Those issues can have dates assigned by the fix version. So I think in a roundabout way you can.

[Nate Whitehead]

I could see this being very beneficial - or even being able to connect a JPD project's custom field to an Asset object to support a dropdown list of values. If you could do that, you could potentially have an asset schema to support versions that projects could 'opt' into.  Now I need to go see if I could do this either directly or with automation. Good question though @Thiago Pinheiro , interested to hear how others solve this.

[Thiago Pinheiro]

The problem that I see using a custom field is that it won't provide the delivery progress bar neither the delivery status like the image below:

[Lisa Kostyshak]

@Nate Whitehead  I'd be very interested if you find a way to connect an asset object to JPD. From what I understand, it is currently not supported, but would be very helpful to our team.