From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson

Finding your way around Jira Cloud - Jira Tutorial

From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson

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Finding your way around Jira Cloud

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Now, let's take a look at high-level navigation in Jira Cloud. Most of this will be very similar to what we just looked at in Jira Data Center. Here we're already logged in to Jira Cloud, and in this case, my homepage is a view that Jira Data Center doesn't have, for you, which until very recently was called the Your Work view. This landing page has thumbnails for your recently visited projects, then a series of tabs below that for recently worked on or visited pages in JIRA along with things you favorited and any issues assigned to you. This is a handy alternative to a dashboard for a home landing page. I wish JIRA Data Center had this view. To the left here we have the main JIRA menu navigation, and this has just recently had an overhaul which moved it from the top of the page to the left side and added some customization features for the menu. This menu has been at the top for me for decades, so if during this course I refer to this main navigational menu as the top menu, please forgive me. The menu items here are pretty similar to what we just saw in JIRA Data Center. We have For You, which we're seeing now, Recent, quick access to places you visited in Jira recently, and Starred, which are views you've explicitly favorited. Apps is primarily access to Jira plugins or extensions you've installed. This is a marketing term Atlassian has changed a number of times. I've seen add-ons, plugins, and apps as terms used by Atlassian for this over the years. Filters is a forecasting, or roadmapping if you will, feature that is only available at the premium tier in Jira Cloud. It's included in Jira Data Center with no additional charge. We'll demonstrate this feature later in the course within Jira Data Center. The Projects pulldown gives us quick access to recently visited projects, the ability to view a list of all projects, and the option to create a new project. The little plus gadget at the top here. Teams is the Jira Cloud equivalent of the Issues top-level menu item we saw in Jira Datacenter. Basically, this is Issue Search, and saved and favorited Issue Searches. Dashboards gives us access to any Jira dashboards we've already created, or the ability to manage and create them. Teams is a Jira Cloud-only feature you can use to define teams of people. We'll cover that later in the course. And the same with Goals, Jira Cloud's specific and fairly new feature that we will cover. If we select Customize Sidebar, we see a pop-up screen that allows us to hide top-level menu items if we want. Say we know we aren't going to use the Plans feature ever in Jira Cloud. No reason to have it on the main menu then. We could just deselect it here. We can also reorder the menu items here. This main menu customizability is a very new feature at the time of this recording. It was added at the same time Atlassian moved the main menu from the top of the page to the left sidebar. This is still a top-level set of gadgets, though, that will stay present wherever you are in Jira. We can collapse and re-expand the navigational sidebar if we like. Next to that, there is an application switcher that lets us toggle between various Atlassian applications. Not every Atlassian Cloud account is going to have access to the same set of Atlassian and products, so what you see here may vary. Next is the home icon, which is the Jira logo by default, but can be customized for an Atlassian site. If we select the home icon, we always go to our personal home screen, which in Jira Cloud will either be the For You view or a dashboard. More on that later. Next is the quick search field, which you can type into to find projects or issues. This is more fully featured in Jira Cloud, as we can see a lot of quick links here when we put our cursor into the field that JIRA Data Center didn't have. The Create button is one of several ways to create JIRA issues, which we'll do later. To the far right here, we have the four navigational icons, just as we did in JIRA Data Center. But the first one is different. In JIRA Data Center, we had a bullhorn for a feedback form. But here we have a bell, which is an in-application alerts notification. If someone mentions us or we receive a notification for an event, we'll see it up here. The question mark icon next over is the same as in Jira Data Center. It pulls up the help items with access to various types of documentation. The gear icon provides access to Jira administrative options. And you may or may not have privileges to see these in your own Jira instance. Next over is your personal user menu with a few more options available than in JIRA Data Center. If we select a project, and this is a Scrum project, we get a menu along the top that's specific to that project. The main sidebar is still present, but the projects item there has expanded and we're on a board that's specific to the project we navigated to. Before the main JIRA menu was moved to the left sidebar recently, the project-specific bar was to the left when you selected a project, and it still is in JIRA Data Center, rather than along the top. If you happen to use both JIRA Data Center and Cloud for your work, this difference may cause you some annoyance. But despite that, we're currently viewing the active sprint of this project, and this is a board in JIRA. We can see columns for statuses, and each thumbnail represents a JIRA issue. Issues will flow from left to right as they're worked on. There are a few more options in the project-specific top menu here in Jira Cloud than there were in Jira Data Center. For example, list, forms, and goals here are all options that Jira Data Center didn't have. This is because Jira Cloud tends to get new features where Jira Data Center stays a bit more static. Let's navigate back to our home screen, and now we know how to find our way around in Jira Cloud. Let's dive into Jira Boards next.

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