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Last Updated on Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:08 Written by Ivo Verlaek Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:01

Purpose

Displaying JIRA-issues as Gantt-Chart on an additional project tab panel to support classic project management tasks.
It can also be used to generate outside-views for traditional management information of agile projects.

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Install

This plugin is based on the version-2 OSGi-plugin system of Atlassian. In opposite to the older version-1 plugin system, it can be:

automatically loaded during run-time by using Atlassian's Universal Plugin Manager or
manually installed by downloading the current jar-file and copying it into the application folder "jira-home/plugins/installed-plugins". This process requires a restart of JIRA.

Usage and Video Documentation

Plugin Installation and Global Configuration

You can use the Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager for installation or you download the JAR-file and save it into the sub-directory "<yourJIRAhome>/plugins/installed-plugins".

Next, you have to configure the plugin:

Login as administrator and click on "Administration" of the main menu.
Select the page "Gantt-Chart" within the section "Projects"
Have a look at the recommandations on the bottom (yellow hints)
Select your preferences concerning Gantt-Admin group AND project role
Select the custom fields for storing the planned start and end date
Select the custom field containing the Gantt options like milestone
Configure all the other possibilities or take over the default settings
Click on SAVE-button

Watch it as video - Step 1

You have to make Gantt customfields available for your issues: please update your corresponding schemes, like "issue field scheme" etc. so that your users can maintain this dates per issue.

Project specific Configuration

Gantt-Gadget Configuration

Issue Creation and Planning Dates

Automatic Re-Scheduling

Interactive Features

Issue Management Overview

Issue Actions and Operations

Issue Linking

Daily Usage

When you have created issues with both custom fields filled with valid dates, you can display them on the project's tab panel. In order to reduce AJAX-loading time, a default time range is used. If an issue do not fit into this range, it will not be displayed. This time range is relative to today and measured in weeks or days, like "-8w" to "+12w": all issues with a plannedStart-date within the last 2 month til 3 month into the future are illustrated on the gantt-chart.

Issue Dependencies

If you have linked issues by using a link type of name "Gantt-Dependency", all of them are graphically displayed as well.

JIRA-gantt-screenshot-1

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