Structure allows you to add columns allow you to view key information about your issues at a glance. You can customize what the information that is available by adding new columns or changing the arrangement of your columns.
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By default, the following columns are visible in a structure:
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Summary - Displays the issue summary
(. This is also where your issue hierarchy is visible – the summary for child issues is indented relative to their parent issues.
)- Status
Key - Displays the issue
statuskey.
Assignee - Agile - Including epic color, epic name and issue color.
- Issue Fields - For each issue field in your Jira, Structure offers a column that displays that field's value.
Progress - Displays
the issue's assignee
To add new columns, click the + sign to the far right of the column headers.
You can add the following types of columns:
issue progress based on time tracking, and aggregates that progress up the hierarchy.
You can add additional columns to visualize data for your project. The following column types are available:
Progress - Display an aggregate issue progress, which is calculated based on values from the issue and its sub-issues.
- Totals - Display aggregate values for issue progress, which include progress values from sub-issues.
- Service Management - Jira Service Management customers can visualize and manage SLA fields within a structure.
- Test Runs - Build custom testing solutions with project-specific hierarchies.
- Planned Time - View and manage Planner by Tempo plan data alongside your project data.
- Work Logged - View and manage Timesheets by Tempo work logged data alongside your project data.
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Formula - Perform calculations or comparisons based on issue fields or other attributes.
Number - Create and track custom numeric values.
Text - Create and track custom text values.
Date - Create and track custom date values.
Time in Status - Track how much time issues spend in a particular status.
Test Run - Build custom testing solutions.
Other Structure Fields - Data related to the structure hierarchy, such as Count Leaves, Row ID, and Sequential Index.
Jira fields - Track and aggregate values from Jira fields.
Tempo fields - Manage values from other Tempo products, including Tempo Work Logged, Tempo Planned Time, Tempo Accounts, and Tempo Teams
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Adding Columns
To add new columns, click the + sign to the far right of the column headers.
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Sorting by Columns
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Aggregate Values (Totals)
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Sum over sub-items
The Sum over sub-items option allows you to aggregate values within a column based on the value of sub-items. In the example below, you can see that the Σ Remaining Estimate value for Epic 3 is the total of all its sub-issues' Remaining Estimates.
When using an aggregate column.
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To show aggregate values for a column, click the column header, select Edit column, and check the Sum over sub-items box. Sum over sub-items is only available when an aggregate value is available: numbers, durations, and formulas.
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When using sum over sub-items:
When an aggregate value is displayed for an issue that also has its own value in the field, its own value is displayed next to the aggregate value in
agray
color(see Story 2 above).
Since issues can be present multiple times in a structure, you can select whether you want to count every instance of an issue or count it just once. By default, duplicates are counted each time they appear. To exclude them, select Exclude Duplicates in the column options
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Sum over sub-items
All aggregate columns have the Sum over sub-items box checked.
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Next Steps
Now that we've built our structureNext, we'll see look at how to switch structures and edit an existing edit issues from within a structure.
Configuring Your Editing Issues in Structure