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Issue operations

Issue operations

With Excel 365 Connector you can log work in issues imported from Jira Instance. Select Issue operation (1) from the app menu.

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Issue operations in menu

In this menu you can change issue transition, log your work and view the log history for the selected issue:

 

Transition

Just select one of the imported issues and chose available transition.

When you use the ‘Change’ button issue status will change.

Issue Transition (1) section allows you to change the workflow status for any of issues imported from Jira.

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Issue transition

You have 2 drop-downs:

  • Select Issue - responsible for Issue selected for transition to another Status

  • Select Transition - select new Status to which the Issue will be transitioned

How to change issue status

  1. Type issue key or Select Issue (1) from the dropdown list in this list, there are all imported issues to the spreadsheet.

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Select issue to transition
  1. Then select the required state from Select Transition (2) list.

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Select Transition
  1. After you select issue and status click Change (1).

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Action -change status
  1. After that, the issue changed status.

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Status changed

Done. Status was changed to Progress.


Log work

Select the issue, then use ‘Log work’ button to open time tracking window (just like in Jira) to report time spent on issue.
Remember to save your changes.

In Issue operation (1) menu , there is a drop-down list (2) with all imported into sheet issues, where you can log work.

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Issue operations and selector

After selecting an issue (1), click Log work (2) button, it will open time tracking dialog.

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Select issue to log work

In the Log work(1) dialog (just like in Jira) you can:

  • see an Original estimate (2).

  • enter the Time Spent (3). After entering Time Spent it will be automatically subtracted from Time Remaining (4) and Time Started and Date started (5), (current date and time - reported time).

  • enter the Time Remaining (4) if wasn’t added before or edit existing one Issue operations | History .

  • set the time and date to start working on this issue (5) for manual setup purpose , if not, it is automatically setup after entering the time in the Time Spent (3) field .

  • you can also include description of your work (6).

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Log work dialog

When you have completed all the details you can save your worklog (7).

For Time Spent / Renaming use the format: 2w 4d 6h 45m

  • w = weeks

  • d = days

  • h = hours

  • m = minutes

For Time Spent use the format 00:00 - 23:59

For Date Started use the format yyyy-MM-dd

If the entered data is in the wrong format or is incorrect If the entered data is incorrect or incorrect the ( ! ) warning icon ( 8 ) will be displayed

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Warning icon - incorrect data

History

View history of logged worklogs for the selected issue.

Edit submitted worklogs by clicking on the "Pencil" icon.

Worklogs History section (1) lists selected issue worklog (2), if you need to edit your worklog: just use a pencil icon (3), time tracking dialog will appear.

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Worklogs history view

 

When editing the Time Spent field, the Time Remaining field will be automatically adjusted according to the changes made. The Time Started and Date Started field will remain unchanged, if necessary, changes can make be done manually.

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