The HR project

In our previous chapters and exercises, we built and customized a Jira project to collect data from users. What we need to do now is process and present this data back to the users. The goal we are trying to achieve in this exercise is to set up a dashboard for our HR team that will have useful information such as statistics and issue listings, which can help our team members to better organize themselves to provide better services to other departments.

Setting up filters

The first step is to create a useful filter that can be shared with the other members of the team and that also acts as a source of data to feed our gadgets. We will use the advanced search to construct our search. Proceed as follows:

1. Browse to the Issue Navigator page.
2. Click on the Advanced link to switch to advanced search with JQL.
3. Type project = HR and issuetype in ("New Employee", Termination) and resolution is empty order by priority code in the JQL search query...