Visible Fields

The Visible fields (1) page allows the user to preset the displayed fields. The user can search for any fields from the Jira project, decide which fields should be visible and which should be hidden (e.g. Fix version (2)), set the column display order, save field and column settings and quick and easy access to saved schema.

Field Schema

Section Field Schema (1) allows to save (2) a custom user column order and selected needed/used fields. For more information on custom field schema configuration, visit our step-by-step guide Visible Fields Schema.

Fields

In another section you have a search box (1) which can help you in finding needed field. Please notice that it searches through field names (not field IDs) while you type, it will narrow down the list of visible fields.

Show / Hide

Field section display list of all available fields. Next to each field there is a Show (1) / Hide (2) button, when clicked, the field immediately appears/hides from the worksheet. Use search box to quickly narrow down the list.

Data for those fields is fetched live, when you decide to show that field. Ability to manage those visible fields and link it with fetching data was one of our main issues in our previous generation of Excel Connector (it could only fetch all or none!).

Excel 365 Connector for Jira solve those problems making app faster and more reliable. However, in case of any performance issues, consider hiding unnecessary columns.

Buttons: Default/Restore (since version 2.7.0), Reorder, Sort

When you look at the list there are 3 action buttons:

• Default (1) - restores default set of visible fields,

• Reorder (2) - opens a dialog with the option to change the order of fields (columns in Excel). Just drag & drop fields to place it in your desired order,

• Sort field list - change alphabetical order of fields (3), it changes the order of the list (not the visible columns).

After clicking the Reorder button (2), you can select the order of the columns using the drag-and-drop mechanism by moving the fields up and down according to the required order, to save the changes, press the Save button.

Checkboxes: Field ID, Prefix, Column

Additionally to the list of fields there are 3 checkboxes, which affect the view of the list:

• Field ID (1) - showing unique Jira ID of particular field. It might be helpful for solving issues, if there is no data visible, but you are sure this is the correct name → maybe it is the field from another project (field scheme) with same name but different ID. Field IDs are also used in: Templating

• Prefix (2) - adds the value set in Templating feature to field ID, making it easier to copy and use in template. When you start using templates, being able to copy the exact field ID with prefix will save you a lot of time, learn more about: Templating

• Column (3) - this allows you to acquire the location of particular fields in your spreadsheet, given with exact indexes of the columns. Such a piece of data can be found for every field for which Show button was pushed. Hidden fields have no such information (because - in fact - they don’t exist in your spreadsheet, thus it’s obvious they have no column assigned), so in order to make it appear, you need to push Show button for them as well. Furthermore, by clicking aforementioned indexes we are navigated straight to where these columns actually are in your spreadsheet. For example, if we click G within Assignee box, the name of G column will be selected, exposing its exact location.