jira-scrumboard

Tweaking the JIRA scrumboard. Creates a clear and concise JIRA scrumboard. Avoids the need to scroll all the time through your JIRA Scrum board so easier to show on a screen or share via videocall.

In addition this offers a great way to create a list of stories whick can be used in email, chat, presentations, Slack etc. Great for Product Owners who want to share a list with their stakeholders or development team.

Requires a Chrome extension ("User JavaScript and CSS") which allows you to inject your own JavaScript and CSS rules to any page, like your JIRA page. So this tweak does not require any change in JIRA, since it's not a JIRA plugin. See Install sequence below.

Active Sprints board

From the Active Sprints board there are several changes/features:

• Adapt the Active Sprints-board so more issues fit on.
• Creates 2-1-1-2 columns instead of 1-1-1-1 and reduces the height of a card. Although the code is now aiming for a 4 column scrumboard, if you have a 5 column if will switch back to normal.
• (optional) add the Story Point amount to each story-swimlane

Condensed High Contract-view (press Z multiple times). Optimal for larger screens for Daily Scrums/Daily standups.

• Creates 3-1-1-3 columns
• Hides IDs, labels and priorities of subtasks: more space for titles + assignees
• Hides Details-pane to create a steady, non-moving screen while dragging
• clicking on issueID opens issue in new tab
• hides Done subtasks when more than 3. Includes Show more toggle.
• "Collapse Done only"-button that expands all issues, except for the Done ones. For improved overview during standup.

Tips

• press Z to enable Fullscreen -> High contract (=condensed) -> Normal view -> Fullscren etc
• click on a card -> press A to assign people (type a part of then name and hit Enter twice)
• click on a card -> press . (dot) to choose any action (like Delete, Creating subtasks)
• Manually collapse rows of stories that are set to Done the day before to save space

Tips for exceptional cases

• For more zooming on even bigger screens: use Ctrl (or CMD) + or - (browser zoom)
• When in Condensed view: press Z to switch view and show/hide Details pane

Backlog view

From the Backlog-view there are several features:

• Create a copy-pastable list of issuetitles + links. Easy for in Slack/Mail (share list of stories that need refinement) and Powerpoint/Keynote (List stories in the Sprint Review presentation)
• (optional) copy-pastable HTML block for generating test-scenarios for Confluence/wiki

Howto

• Select a number of issues in the backlog view (use CMD/Ctrl of Shift to select multiple)
• Click on link called "show copyable list" on the right side of the Quick filters to open a new tab with the name + link of each issues (if this link doesn't show up: refresh the page)

Install

This procedure assumes you dont have the plugin.If you already have the plugin with existins scripts in it. Add the script manually, see Update procedure.

1. Download Zip from this repo (green button)
2. Unzip zipfile and extract user-js-css-v8-xxxxxx.json file
3. install 'User JavaScript and CSS' extension for Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-javascript-and-css/nbhcbdghjpllgmfilhnhkllmkecfmpld?hl=en
4. Click 'User JavaScript and CSS' icon in Chrome (Blue/red dotted lines-icon)
5. Go to Settings -> Settings
6. Choose 'Upload and Apply' under Backup if you did not use this plugin before
7. Select user-js-css-v8-xxxxxx.json file that you downloaded -> this should upload some settings and some css/js for your JIRA
8. If your JIRA url if different that this format: jira.*/RapidBoard.jspa (where * is a wildcard for any character): Edit the url under the Sites-tab -> should become your JIRA url, like jira.yourdomain.com/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa
9. If using JIRA cloud: change the jiraLicense-setting in the JS code
10. Hit Save

Open your Active sprints-board in JIRA and hit refresh (F5).. and have fun! At the top of the JavaScript code you can disable and enable some options.

NOTE: css.css and js.js are updated more frequently than the settings-file since that is easier to update for us. So we recommend updating your freshly installed version with the procedure below.

Update

To get the lastest version:

1. Go to your JIRA
2. Click 'User JavaScript and CSS' icon in Chrome (Blue/red dotted lines-icon)
3. Open the two panes (js/css) in the plugin
4. (optional) create a backup of the content of both panes if you've made manual changes/configuration-settings.
5. Open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infonl/jira-scrumboard/master/css.css And copy-paste content in the CSS pane. This will replace the old css.
6. Open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infonl/jira-scrumboard/master/js.js And copy-paste content in the JS pane. This will replace the old js.
7. Double check: URL: should be jira.*/RapidBoard.jspa
8. Double check: Options: enable JavaScript and JQuery 3
9. Save

Go to your JIRA and refresh page and have fun!

Happy paperless standups!

FAQ

I dont like .....

In the JS-part, see the configuration settings if this functionality can be turned off. If not, please submit an issue in GitHub and we can work on it.

I don't see the nicer scrumboard. What is wrong?

I assume you use Chrome and the extension and script installed via the procdure above.

• Go to your JIRA.
• Click on the blue-red 'User JavaScript and CSS' extension icon in Chrome. (If you dint see this, hit the puzzlepiece icon and pin the icon)
• Do you see a url under 'Rules for this page'?
• if not, click on the Settings-wheel icon of this extension
• Do you see a url under Sites-tab?
• if not: redo the install procedure above
• if yes: you got in installed right, but the url is not correct
• click on the url in the list
• change the url to your JIRA url
• If you see a url under 'Rules for this page': make sure the toggle in front of it is green and make sure you refresh your JIRA-page.

I get errors in the Test Scenarios once pasted them into Confluence

In the JS-part, somewhere in the configuration settings: Fill in jiraServerId for Confluence macros to JIRA stories

You can get this ID by looking into the source of a confluence page while you added a JIRA marcro in that page, or ask your admin: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/finding-your-server-id-938847652.html

I want a different Test scenario table Great, some headers can be configurated at the top of the JavaScript code. Want more? it's easy: ask your local frontender to change the Javascript code. Do make of backup of this code, because if you upgrade of the plugin manually it will revert your beautuful changes.