Project Catergory Count

[Ruman]

Hi folks,

I want to see a 'count' on a dashboard gadget of how many Projects I have in certain categories. Is this possible?

I have tried filter counts but that only looks at issues within projects or project categories.

I want to do this so that I can display numbers on a wallboard.

Some help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Ruman Muhith

[Leo Diaz - Deiser]

Hi @Ruman 

I'm Leo, Product Manager of Projectrak.

Perhaps, Projectrak could be a good option:

But Projectrak is much more than this feature, Projectrak allows you to create more project properties, reporting, smart fields, etc.

Click here to try Projectrak!

Hope it helps!

Leo

[Ram Veeraraghavan]

Why are these standard aggregate information not available in JIRA out of the box. Seems primitive

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Because most of the "aggregate information" that people ask for is pretty much useless to most people.  Why do you need to see numbers of projects by category?  What useful thing does it tell you about the work being tracked in Jira?

[Richard Cross]

Projects tend to map to teams, so it tells you how many teams are doing work of a particular category (as opposed to how many issues have been raised under that same category).

Off the top of my head:  perhaps you use categories to denote business functions, and you want to see the adoption rate of your Jira instance by those functions?

Where I work, we're using categories to map to shared configurations from which all projects are created (Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall, etc), so this would be useful information to track adoption of various project management methodologies.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid there is no function to see numbers of projects by category, other than the grouping in the project list screens.