Maintaining number of projects

[jeroen_wilmes]

There seems to be only one way to make an overview of projects in jIRA and that is via System settings and project management. Although the selections you can make there are very poor.

How can I see for which projects I'm the Lead?

How can I make a selection of projects of a selection of categories?

etc. etc.

Is it possible to create JQL filters on the project page?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It's quite hard to do this sort of thing because Jira is very much focussed on the issues.  

But

• Not ideal, but go to the list of projects, sort by project lead and page through it until you find yourself.
• "category = alpha" will find you all issues in projects belonging to the category "alpha", stick that in a "filter statistics" gadget, group by project, and you'll have the list you need.  Not sure what you mean by "selection" though.
• I know there are more questions.
• No, JQL filters cannot be added to the project pages (there was a disastrous experiment with doing that a few years ago - I found people added filters that showed utter garbage because they didn't really understand what they were doing - when you've got three project filters purporting to show "open issues" with three wildly different result sets - nope)

Jira is complicated, and that makes admin and reporting complicated (especially if you make a lot of customisations).  I think we should look more into the difficulties you are seeing!

[Valerie Knapp · Accepted solution]

Hi @jeroen_wilmes , thanks for your question.

I think you could get some of the information you are looking for from a dashboard.

If you are able to create some project categories,

you can then add the Projects dashboard gadget and filter for a category to get a high-level overview of the status of projects -

I agree there isn't a nice way to filter for some variables that are not searchable with JQL, like project lead, but this might help you get a bit more useful info.

[jeroen_wilmes]

I would expect Jira to have more options as a standard, like these options are also available in other parts. I don't expect to buy additional plugin to complete what I expect to be part of the premium version.