What is Jira Assistant?

Jira Assistant (Jira Assist or JA in short) is a free and open-source tool which helps Jira users to track work done on timely basis and generate various reports. It is developed in 2016 and is absolutely free for both personal and commercial use. Jira Assistant is available as a browser extension for all major browsers (like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera), available as Jira App for Jira Cloud users and is also hosted as static web app. Installation or configuration of this tool does not require any Jira Admin privileges. You can easily install, integrate with Jira and start using it in less than a minute.

FEATURES OVERVIEW

Some of the most used and high level unique features of Jira Assistant are listed below. Hover over each image and read more about it.

Quick and simple setup

Quickly install the extension and Integrate with Jira in less than a minute. No credentials required.

Create dashboard and customize it by adding and rearrange gadgets, change layout, etc..

Generate multiple reports like Worklog report, Sprint reports, etc., or build your own reports.

View and add/edit worklogs in calendar view on monthly, weekly or single day view modes

Bulk import issues or worklogs within seconds by uploading CSV files.

Great configuration options starting from a simple skin to advance settings fitting your needs

Did you know?

There are lots of small hidden features in Jira Assistant. Uncovering that could help you with your day to day activities.

Rename dashboard and change icon

Clicking on the title in Dashboard lets you to change the name of the dashboard and change its icon as well.

Custom gadgets

You can use custom reports or report builder and create a report which can be added as gadget in Dashboard

Dashboard: Switch between grid or tabbed layout

You can change the layout of gadgets in dashboard to customize the look and feel.

Copy or move worklog with drag and drop

In calendar module, you can copy the worklog by pressing Alt key and just drag and drop the worklog.

Use dashboard as quick view

You can view the dashboard as popover in browser just by clicking the JA icon. You can set any dashboard as quick view and enable quick view in settings.

Bulk import issues: Multi project or parent ticket mapping

While creating sub-tasks using bulk import, you can have ',' separated parent tickets to create same sub-task under multiple tickets. Same logic can be applied for same ticket creation under multiple projects.

Worklog report: query based filtering

Tickets pulled for worklog report can be further filtered based on custom query like based on a particular project or issue types, etc..

Latest updates

03-Jan-2023 - Auto update would take time

Jira Assistant is now updated in phased basis to avoid any breaking changes impacting all users. So it may take long time before your extension gets updated. If you want to manually update it immediately, just navigate to "chrome://extensions", turn on "Developer mode" from top right corner and click Update button. Then you can turn off dev mode.

20-Dec-2022 - Available as App for Jira Cloud

Jira Assistant can now be installed within your Jira Cloud as an App. Once installed, this would be available for all your Jira users. Visit https://www.jiraassistant.com to know more.

26-Jul-2022 - Introducing JA Web

You can visit https://app.jiraassistant.com to use or test upcoming features of Jira Assistant. Contribute in testing JA by switching to Web Version. All the fixes and new feature updates would be immediately available in Web version of JA. Later, stable updates would be pushed to Extensions.

13-Jun-2022 - Latest Updates

Starting from Jira Assistant v2.37, updates are supported only for latest version of chrome. So, kindly update your chrome to latest version (i.e. v113.x). This is also recommended for safe browsing.

Recent and upcoming changes

28-May-2023: v2.51 - Enhancements and bug fixes

#301 - Worklog report: Sorting of users and tickets done based on first worklog date
#290 - Import worklog doesn't work

24-May-2023: v2.49 - Enhancements and bug fixes

Added additional range option in Date range picker
Workaround fix for options menu in integrate popup hiding immediately once shown in firefox
#301 - Worklog report - Added Issue Age as custom column
#301 - Worklog report - Grouped tab - Added option to expand issues by default based on settings
#300 - Fixed issue for Timer controls not adding to board
#298 - Resolve minor issue with worklog timer entries and rounding
#296 - Date format issue resolved for month view in calendar
#293 - Option added to adjust remaining estimate from add worklog popup
#292 - Moved expanding of event height behind a settings so that event overlapping is controlled based on user choice
#291 - Worklog Report: Added support to include one or more custom columns in worklog report
#289 - Added zoom in and zoom out button and increased the minimum event height so that small events are still readable
#287 - Saving flat table settings while column selections or grouping is changed
#286 - Added assignee column to pending worklog gadget
#284 - Added settings to hide non working days in worklog calendar
#283 - Worklog Report: Estimation related text wraping issue resolved and maintaining user expanded state on refresh
#283 - BugFix: Estimation related text wraping issue resolved in worklog report
#282 - BugFix: Exported excel being corrupted due to custom implementation of encoding

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