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

Finding your way around Jira Data Center - Jira Tutorial

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

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Finding your way around Jira Data Center

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Although we'll spend most of our demonstration time in this course with Jira Cloud, let's kick off our navigational tour with the Jira Datacenter product. Again, this is an older incarnation of Jira that you download and install on your own server or server cluster. In my case, I just have it running on my laptop under a free trial license. It's a Java application, so the server needs to have Java installed to run it. We won't cover installation of Jira Data Center in this course, but if you want to try it out on your own and can manage the technical aspects, Atlassian has instructions on how to get it up and running. Once we log in to Jira here, we come to the default dashboard in Jira, which acts as our home page. These boxes are dashboard gadgets, and we'll get into that more when we cover the dashboards later in this course. The most important thing to note here is this top menu bar, which is present no matter where you are in JIRA. The individual menus on the top bar represent core concepts we just discussed. We have dashboards, and in this case I don't have any additional dashboards created yet other than the default one we landed on when we logged in. Next we have the Projects pulldown. It tells us the project we last selected, the current project, as well as links to navigate to other projects we've recently visited. We can view all projects in the JIRA instance or just the software or business category projects. We can also create a new project from here, which we'll do later. We have Issues next, and here we can navigate quickly to Recently Viewed Issues, search for issues, and select from and manage issue filters, which are saved issue searches. Next is Boards, and we can select from Recently Viewed Boards or View All Boards. We can also get to boards by just selecting a project, as we'll see in a moment. Next is plans, also known as roadmaps. More on that terminology mess later in the course. And next over is the menu bar create button, which is one of the several ways to create a JIRA issue for a selected project. We'll do that in a bit. We have the quick search field next, which we can type in to quickly find issues or projects by their name, and then some navigational icons in the far right. The bullhorn pulls up just a feedback form, the question mark icon is the help menu which provides links to documentation, and the gear icon is the administrative menu items, which you may not have access to without certain administrative permissions. Finally, the user profile icon on the far right provides access to some personal settings, along with the ability to change what your personal JIRA homepage is, the page you go to on login. You can also log out from here. That's the top menu bar. Now let's go back to the Projects menu and select one of these recently visited projects. Once we've drilled down on a project in JIRA, notice we have a context-sensitive, in this case project-specific menu bar on the far left. Our top menu is always the same, but the left sidebar gives us context-specific navigation. So in this case, the sidebar gives us access to this project's backlog, the active board, reports, project settings, and a few other project-specific elements. And this is our first visual board. This project has active work in progress, so we can see columns for the statuses in this project's workflow, and these thumbnails show individual issues and what their current status is. The logo icon on the top menu bar in the upper left corner will always navigate you back to whatever your homepage is. In our case, in Jira Datacenter, that's the system default dashboard we saw when we first logged in. And that's high-level navigational elements in Jira Datacenter. Let's look at Jira Cloud next.

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