Filters Activity Stream for Server Installation Guide
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Getting Started
Filters Activity Stream is a dashboard gadget that shows a list of the most recently changed content within your JIRA site. Compared to the standard Activity Stream, Filters Activity Stream allows to configure a basic or JQL filter. This features enables many business needs to be met like browsing worklogs activities, retrieve issues with specifics components, sprints or versions and much more.
Requirements
A minimum filter to which you have access or registered ownership on your instance is required.
The filter must be visible to other users in case of a shared dashboard
It is required to put the filter that you do not create yourself as your preferred filter (star) to display it in the widget configuration
Installing Filters Activity Stream
Log into your Jira instance as an admin.
Click the admin dropdown and choose Atlassian Marketplace.The Manage add-ons screen loads.
Click Find new apps or Find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page.
Locate Filters Activity Stream via search.The appropriate app version appears in the search results.
Click Try free to begin a new trial or Buy now to purchase a license for Filters Activity Stream.You're prompted to log into MyAtlassian. Filters Activity Stream begins to download.
Enter your information and click Generate license when redirected to MyAtlassian.
Click Apply license.If you're using an older version of UPM, you can copy and paste the license into your Jira instance.
To find older Filters Activity Stream versions compatible with your instance, you can look through our version history page.
Enabling Browser third-party cookies
In order to use Filters Activity Stream, third-party cookies must be enabled. Please check your browser configuration.
For Microsoft Edge
Open Microsoft Edge, select Menu (3 dots icon on top right corner of the browser) > Settings > Site permissions > Cookies and site data.
Turn off "Block third-party cookies"
For Chrome
Open Chrome, select Menu (3 dots icon on top right corner of the browser) > Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
Turn on “Allow all cookies” OR "Block third-party cookies in Incognito"
For Safari
In the Safari app on your Mac, choose Safari > Preferences, click Privacy, then do any of the following:
Turn off “Prevent cross-site tracking.”
Turn off “Block all cookies”
Creating a filter
Create your custom filter.
Please note you can use the basic or JQL filter. Then, save the filter created.
Please check Atlassian documentation to create a filter. : https://support.atlassian.com/jira-core-cloud/docs/save-your-search-as-a-filter/.
Adding the plugin Filters Activity Stream on the Dashboard
From your Dashboard, you’ll see a window with “Drag your gadgets here or add a new gadget”. Click on “add a new gadget”.
Starting with the plugin
Customizing your filter
Add your custom filter in the filter input field.
Activity types
As an option, you can also filter by activities types.
Display options
Limit to display items
You can add a limit of items to display for your search. Please note the possibility the option to use the "show more" button in the results window later.
Refresh automatically the filters activity stream
To regularly update your content and avoid doing it manually, click on the checkbox to display a list of time periods and choose the most useful for you.
Checking the results
The results are sorted by date
You can open the profile of the task author
Access directly to the task from the result
Based on your research :
check the time spent on a task and the total time already spent on this task
check the estimated time of a task
check for comments added to a task. Please not that the plugin allows you to respond directly from the results page.
check for created and updated issues
Display more result with the “show more” button.
Troubleshooting
Getting the HTTP Status 400 with Google Chrome
This error could be due to some browsers extensions installed in Chrome. You could try to have a check and deactivate them.
You can also modify the default max header size to 64kb in /conf/server.xml of the Jira tomcat server.
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" maxHttpHeaderSize="65536" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
You can find more information about tomcat configuration over here : https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html
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