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The Activity Stream gadget displays a summary of recent activity in particular projects (and/or by particular people) in which you are interested. This can include:

  • Issues in your local JIRA system.
  • Issues in another JIRA system (provided your administrator has configured a two-way Application Link).
  • Activity from another Atlassian application, such as:
    • document updates (from Confluence)
    • code commits (from FishEye)
    • code reviews (from Crucible)
    • builds (from Bamboo)
      (info) Note that this requires your administrator to configure a two-way Application Link.
  • Activity from remote applications (note that your administrator will need to set this up via the REST API or the provider plugin API, or locally via Java).

The Activity Stream gadget also provides an RSS feed, allowing you to create very specific RSS feeds of only the information that is most relevant to you. Simply add the Activity Stream gadget to your dashboard, specify the people/projects of interest (see instructions below), then click the RSS icon:

What does it look like?

The Activity Stream gadget should appear as follows on the dashboard:

Note that you can vote, watch or comment directly on JIRA issues in the activity stream (if you have the appropriate permission), using the links provided.

Adding the 'Activity Stream' gadget to your Dashboard

  1. Go to your JIRA dashboard and click Add Gadget.
  2. The Gadget Directory will appear. Locate the Activity Stream gadget and click the Add it Now button. Then click the Finished button at the bottom of the Gadget Directory.
  3. The Activity Stream gadget will appear on your dashboard as follows, ready for you to configure:
  4. Title  — type a heading for this gadget.
  5. Apply filters  — by default, the gadget will display all activity for all projects. If you wish to refine this, select the Apply filterscheck-box, then select the '+' signs to filter the activity by:
    • Project
    • JIRA Issue Key
    • Update Date
    • Username — the user(s) whose activity you wish to monitor. You can specify multiple usernames delimited by spaces, e.g. "jsmith tjones dbrown".
  6. Available Streams — select the applications whose activity you wish to monitor. This can include Atlassian applications (e.g. JRA, Confluence) as well as remote applications.
  7. Limit to _ items  — type the number of activities that you want the gadget to display.
  8. Automatically refresh this activity stream — select this check-box if you want the gadget to update the displayed activity (never / every 15 minutes / every 30 minutes / every hour / every two hours).

To move the gadget to a different position on the dashboard, simply drag-and-drop. You can also change the look and behaviour of the gadget.

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  1. Nov 17, 2010

    Bridget Maloney

    Does anyone know where I can go in the files to make updates to the Activity Stream?

    I am looking to hide work logged & estimate field changes. I have it working like that on a couple of other pages (including the email change logs) and I found the WEB-INF\classes\templates\plugins\jira\projectpanels\fragments\summary\activitystream.vm file. But this calls a variable called $gadgetHtml and I don't know where I can access that.

    Thanks,
    Bridget

    1. Nov 10, 2011

      Anonymous

      Hi Bridget,

      I've found a way to hide "Activity Stream" from certaim user. If you put this code before first line "#if(!$authcontext.user.inGroup('my-gruop'))" and close the sentence "if". The result is: You don't view "Activity Stream" for member gruop "my-group".

      I hope that this answer solve your problem.

  2. Apr 18, 2011

    mkefi

    When i integrate this gadget, in an external website, i can not connect to confidential project. i can see juste , what any one can see without login. so, how can i resolve this ?

  3. May 23, 2011

    Anonymous

    It would be cool to be able to define a filter for this gadget. For example, my current need is to have the activity on all the issues that are "assigned to me"

    1. Nov 22, 2011

      Anonymous

      +1

  4. Aug 25, 2011

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to upgrade only the Activity Stream Gadget? We do have an active license, but we don't want to upgrade the whole Jira..

  5. Sep 27, 2011

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to add only on a dashboard the activity stream gadget of a component of a project and not of a full project? Thanks.

  6. Oct 17, 2011

    Anonymous

    How can I filter out activity stream to get only updates that concerns me (issues I'm assigned on + issues I reported + issues that I commented on + issues I watch).

    So only those I'm involved in any way.

    From what I see currently you can filter per project (and you get more info that you want), per person ( and you get only changes done by that person, not including the issues assigned to the person), etc.

  7. Nov 29, 2011

    Anonymous

    I would like the converse:  I'd like to see only those entries / updates I did NOT create.  I'd like to keep an eye on what's happening...but already know what I've contributed.  Something like "username IS NOT currentUser()".