Filters Activity Stream for Cloud Installation Guide

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Last updated: Apr 29, 2021
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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 feature enables many business needs to be met like browsing worklogs activities, retrieve issues with specifics components, sprints or versions and much more. 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 recommended to set a filter display limit of 100 issues to match the cloud architecture and improve performance

  • Questions? Ask us any time

Installing Filters Activity Stream for Cloud

  • Log into your Jira instance as an admin.

  • Click the admin dropdown and choose Add-ons. The Find new apps or Find new add-ons screen loads.

  • Locate Filters Activity Stream.

  • Click Free trial to download and install your app.

  • You're all set! Click Close in the Installed and ready to go dialog.

Enabling Browser third-party cookies

In order to use Filters Activity Stream and to be able to see the comment editor, 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 for Cloud 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”.

Use the search bar to find “Filters Activity Stream For Cloud By Ugubi” and add it directly on your Dashboard.

 

Starting with the plugin

Click on the component “configure gadget” to open the search window and custom your search.

Customizing your filter

Complete the various fields and save this information.

Title

The title can be let it by default or you can add a new one. When you have few search filter at the same time, we recommend to use different title as it allows you to precise the nature of each search.

 

Available filters

Choose your custom filter from the search bar or directly form the list. Please note this field can’t be empty.

 

Activity types

Click on the field to display the list of activity types. Choose one or more elements for which you want to streamline your activity feed.

Users excluded from results

Click on the field to display the list of users you might want to exclude from the search. Choose one or more users you want to exclude from the search.

 

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.

 Need help?

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