How to select and output specific fields for a report?

[Deleted user]

I'm being asked to create reports that will be output to PDF.  How do I select specific fields found in an issue and then output those as a printed report as part of a review process?

Example: if 10 fields were in an issue, perhaps report 1 would be fields 2, 4, 6, 8.

Report 2 might be fields 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 9 <= note the order change.

Do I need to confluence or some other tool/application installed?

[Larry Talley · Accepted solution]

Conceptually Jira should do what you want without additional plugins.

If you define a Jira "filter" -- build up a Jira query and then "Save As" and give this filter a name -- then the columns that you had chosen to display on that query result, and in the order you had chosen to display them, should be saved with the filter definition. So theoretically you could access the filter at any time, up would come the result set with the expected columns, then you could use the "Export" and choose "Export HTML report (current fields)" and in theory you would have something that you could print to PDF.

But in practice I believe there is a quirky defect in Jira that makes this difficult to use. You might upvote the issue and eventually Atlassian will fix it.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-30714