Performance factors

There are many factors not related to app which affects performance:

  • Excel version (Windows version and PC performance)

  • number of metadata schemes related to the differences in project (issue types, fields, field types, permissions), app pulls all data and before sending it to Jira makes validation

  • number of pulled issues and fields - app needs to render all that data in excel and this also requires time (there is no available way to disable pulled columns, meaning everything is fetched)

  • number of users actively using Jira in browser

  • Jira cloud availability

 

To increase App performance you should optimize this areas:

  • try do fetch issues from single project (not cross project, as it would fetch metadata from all used projects)

  • try to fetch same issue types (again different issue types and different screen configurations render more fields, taking your PC power)

  • disable option to group subtasks with parents

  • disable debugging mode

  • disable auto resizing

  • increase timeout time

  • when refreshing data, you can check refresh on selected rows instead of whole sheet

 

Things to optimize in Jira:

  • permission schemes in projects, the simpler and reusable its better

  • number of custom fields, try to re-use some of the fields instead of creating new ones

  • visibility of custom fields - even if custom field is not visible on create, or edit screen but it’s data still need to be pulled

 

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