How do I generate a report on the content of my Jira Dashboards?

[Dawn Rodney]

I have been asked to deliver an executive report on all of our Jira Dashboards. Executives would like to a report to describe things like:

• Dashboard Name
• Dashboard Link
• Dashboard Summary
• Its purpose
• Its data and content

I haven't found a way to accomplish this without manually creating and then subsequently maintaining such a report. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Most of this you could get via the Dashboards API, but getting the data and content would make it hard, since the API that gets the gadget will not give you the underlying filter.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It won't help you with the purpose either, unless the creator of the dashboard has explained it.

Rather than get stuck into coding something to get some data over the API, I would go back to your executives and ask them why they think they want this.  What would it tell them?  What question are they trying to answer?