Dashboard gadget to narrow down your searches

Searching for Jira issues has never been simpler. Refine your searches from the dashboard.

Are your users searching for a specific set of issues? Are they looking only for bugs in a certain state, assets in inventory, or invoices?

Provide them with the simple gadget on a shared dashboard with additional search fields.

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Search fields gadget displayed on the user’s dashboard

Table of contents:

App installation

There are several ways to install an app in your Jira instance. You can do it via Marketplace or through Jira Administration. They are all well documented on Atlassian Support page:

Installing Marketplace apps | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation

App configuration

There is no need for global configuration of this app. After administrator installed the app into Jira, each user can add the gadget on their dashboard.

Adding gadget to dashboard

1. Create or navigate to the user’s dashboard of your choice

2. Using the button Add gadget open pop-up screen for adding gadgets

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      Add gadget button on a dashboard

3. Find Search fields gadget using the search field

4. Click on Add gadget button in particular row of the gadget

5. Gadget is placed on the dashboard

6. Close the Add a gadget screen to return to the dashboard

Several gadgets can be used placed on one dashboard.

Gadget Configuration

After adding the gadget, it is open in a configuration mode. You can return to configuration mode anytime, using three dots in upper right corner of a gadget and selecting Edit option.

1. Configuration options are as follows:

   1. Use Saved Filter field to search with one of your shared filters

      1. Clicking on Advanced Search link pops up a Filter picker where you can Select a filter from the filter directory.

   2. Name the gadget filling the Title field.

   3. Chose logical operator to be used for the searches. By default it is set to OR and you can change it to AND using the drop-down menu.

   4. Configure first Search Field to be used with chosen filter. Drop-down menu offers a list of all System fields as well as Custom fields followed by JQL operator of your choice: equals to (=) or contains (~).

   5. Optionally configure second and third Search Field to be used with chosen filter.

2. After you have configured all fields as you prefer and click Save button to start using the gadget.

Required fields are marked with red asterisk.

Gadget usage - Searching

1. Navigate to proper gadget.

2. Fill in desired values and click on a Search button. Filled-in values are used as-is, no validating or parsing is done.

3. The gadget redirects you to the issue that matches the search query.

4. If there is more than one issue matched, a custom search filter is created in Issue navigator and only tickets that match it are shown.

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