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.

04-Aug-2022 - Volunteers are Welcome!

We have a huge list of plans to improve Jira Assist, but resource availability is very limited, particularly for testing / regression before publish. So anyone willing to volunteer for automation suit / unit test case or feature development, please contact us and we are happy to have your contribution.

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.

26-Jul-2022 - JA Web available for beta testing

To support end-user beta testing of upcoming changes, JA is now available as Web Version. Please visit https://jiraassistant.com to know more about it

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. v109.x). This is also recommended for safe browsing.

Recent and upcoming changes

19-Feb-2023: v2.48 - Enhancements and bug fixes

Added additional range option in Date range picker
New Worklog report: Minor fixes in showing cost for tickets under cost view
Outlook calendar integration enabled for Jira Cloud app
Minor style fixes all over Jira Cloud App
#280 - BugFix: Export settings/report fails when Jira fields with non ASCII chars are used
#280 - BugFix: Deleting of reports broken due to major refactoring in previous release
#278 - Implemented support for adding New Worklog Report as gadget in JA dashboard
#277 - BugFix: Team managed sprint boards not being pulled in dropdowns for reports
#270 - BugFix: Showing report name in tabbed view when it is added as custom gadget to dashboard
#268 - BugFix: Launching API url instead of profile url when clicking on user in groups
#267 - BugFix: Fixed border color issue with Dark theme for Firefox browser
#266 - BugFix: Date format issue with Calendar resolved
#265 - Added option to navigate to current week from calendar top controls
#263 - Added ticket summary in calendar event based on configuration
#254 - BugFix: New worklog report not showing data for some users, when using Jira datacenter. Duplicates #253 & #283

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