Adding issues to the Calendar

Up until now, having a Calendar view of your project's issues required using a third-party Marketplace app or adding the Calendar gadget to a dashboard. Either way, you could not see the calendar from directly inside your project. The Calendar was one of the first features to be added to JWM and provided an immediate lift in functionality not found in other Jira products.

To date, the Calendar is still fairly simple, with little flexibility in how issues are displayed. But the simple fact that you can access it directly in the project makes it super helpful, and we expect the JWM development team at Atlassian to continue to produce new functionality. To display the calendar, click on the Calendar menu option on the left, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.18 – The Calendar

The main driver to determine where on the calendar that issue will be displayed is the Due date field. The issue will appear...