Reports for Jira cloud

[Stu]

Hi I have some custom fields in my epics.  Some are multi-selects, some are checkboxes etc.

I want to be able to report on these fields, however, when I look in the reports section, the reports are quite specific to an agile process, or generally don't look suitable.  I hope I'm missing something.  

What's the best way to report on these custom fields?

Thanks in advance.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What "reports" do you want?

[Stu]

I want to report on my custom fields, for my epics.

So a line or bar chart for these?

Or simple numbers for a given period of time.  I'm not too fussy.

Thanks

[Stu]

this could also be a dashboard as well.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

"I want to report" or asking for bar and line charts doesn't really define anything.

Dashboards are what I usually reach for when "reporting", because we can define them to take specific data sets for a group of users and choose many different ways of representing the data.

Dashboards are mostly driven by saved filters, with the results being formatted by the gadgets chosen. 

Without any specification, I can't really guide you more than that, but an example might help.  Let's say you create and save a really simple filter like "Project = XYZ".  I would start with some basic gadgets - a filter-statistic chart looking at status,  another for assignee, and then a 2-dimensional gadget using status and assignee as the two axes, all using the same filter, can tell you a lot about workloads.

Play with the gadgets, a lot of them might be useful to you.

[Stu]

I've mentioned that I want to report on several custom fields in my epics...

-some are multi select,

-two are check boxes. 

So there are 4 custom fields and about 40 or 50 epics that have these in it.  I want to report on these.

Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

But what?

You might as well be saying "I want to report on my cat" - you're not telling us anything we can work with.

[Stu]

ok sorry for the lack of info...

I have a custom issue type called 'Engagement' which is based of an epic.  There are about 50 of these in my instance of Jira.  In my engagement issue type there are 4 custom fields:

A. multi-select 

b. checkbox select 

c. multi-select

d. multi-select 

I want a report that can show for a given period of time, how many Engagements had

a,b,c,d selected.  I would like this be done graphically if possible and also with a table. 

I know I will have to create a filter for what I want to report on. How do a get a report from that filter?

Thanks