Links Hierarchy Reports

Name	Links-hierarchy-reports
Version	0.7.6
Product Versions	Tested on 3.7 / 3.13.x
Author(s)	JC Huet / Pyxis technologies inc.
Homepage	Links-hierarchy-reports
Price	Free
License	BSD
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Download JAR	links-hierarchy-reports-0.7.6.jar
Download Source	links-hierarchy-reports src

Link Hierarchy Report for JIRA 4.0 beta is available here:
links-hierarchy-reports-1.0-beta2

This is a plugin 2.0 so it should be copied in the
{JIRA_HOME}/plugins/installed-plugins.
Also make sure you remove the old one from {JIRA-HOME}/jira-atlassian/WEB-INF/lib

Tested on Firefox 2.0 and IE 7.0
Best viewed with Firefox

Plug and play!
No configuration needed!

Integrated in GreenHopper!
The project management plugin for JIRA

GreenHopper 4.2.1 has been released! Read the release notes for more information on the features that have been added.

Description/Features

Interactive (AJAX) Hierarchical view of linked issues.
This plugin is an interactive hierarchical view of linked Issues based on a selected link type.

Two views are packaged:

The Organogram (box and arrows)
The Tree view (a classic)

A progress bar by hierarchy is also displayed.
The bar is based on Open versus Resolved (closed) Issues.

Two types of reports are packaged:

The Link Hierarchy Report For Versions
The Link Hierarchy Report For Issues

You will be able to:

Link issues
Break links between Issues
Bulk edit the Issues hierarchy
Change the status of the issue
Toggle from versions hierarchy to issues hierarchy.

Check out the screen shots for a good overview or see it in action.

Prerequisits:

Issue linking enabled.
At least one Link Type defined.

1. Link Hierarchy Report For Versions

This report provides a hierarchical view of issues of a project for a specific version based on a specific link type.

Mandatory inputs

Version name
Name of the targeted version.
Link Type
The link type to build the hierarchy on.

Optional inputs

Include subtasks
Will consider the subtasks as Inward linked issues. Default --> true
Show orphans
Display or not the orphans (Unlinked issues). Default --> true
Theme
Theme of the Issue cells. Default --> Default
Display as a
Selects a hierarchy view (Tree or Organogram). Default --> Organgram

2. Link Hierarchy Report For Issues

This report provides a hierarchical view of an issue based on a specific link type.
Note that, Issues displayed in this Hierarchy are not limited to a single version.

Mandatory inputs

Issue Key
Key of the targeted issue.
Link Type
The link type to build the hierarchy on.

Optional inputs

Include subtasks
Will consider the subtasks as Inward linked issues. Default --> true

Theme
Theme of the Issue cells. Default --> Default

To prevent death loops, this report detects Recursions.

3. Themes

The issue cells in the hierarchy view are decorated by a theme.
The default theme packaged with this plugin provides the ability to:

Link issues Smart issue linker (Detects simple recursion and self-linkage).
This operation will be offered if the user has Permission to link issues.
Change the status of an issue (Based on the available workflow actions of the issue)
The list of actions will be set base on the actual status, the workflow scheme and user Permissions.
Refocus the hierarchy on a specific issue.
The issue becomes the targeted Issue (in yellow).
Bulk Edit the hierarchy.
From the targeted Issue you may trigger a bulk edit for its whole hierarchy.

In all themes

Clicking on the branches () will permit you to break the links if you have Permission to do so.
You can retrieve the Version Hierarchy of all the fixed versions of an issue by clicking the icon () next to the version name in the issue cell.

4. Pluggable Themes

This plugins comes with a service where you can register your own custom theme.
You will need to implement a class that extends IssueCellTheme and register it to the theme service.
Methods to implement:

getHeaderView(): Will provide the header view (Velocity view).
getLinksView(): Will provide the links view on top of the hierarchy view (Velocity view).

Here is an example of a good way to register your theme preventing clashes if this plugin is'nt installed.

try
{
  Class reportServiceClass = Class.forName("com.pyxis.jira.report.services.HierarchyReportService");
  Object reportServiceObject = ComponentManager.getComponentInstanceOfType(reportServiceClass);
  Method registerTheme = reportServiceClass.getMethod("registerTheme", String.class, String.class);
  registerTheme.invoke(reportServiceObject, "My Theme Name", "package.MyTheme");
}
catch (Exception e) 
{
  //handle if needed
}

You can see an example of a custom theme here in the GreenPepper plugin for JIRA.

Usage

Install the plugin by downloading the plugin JAR. Place the downloaded JAR file to <JIRA>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib folder and restart JIRA.
You should now see two additional reports in the project Reports section. Enjoy!

Todo

This plugin supports internalization but only comes with the English resource bundle. Other languages should be provided.
When breaking links the right hand part is not redrawn in some cases in the version hierarchy. Need to support it.
The hierarchy view shows all links regardless the viewable restrictions. Might want to filter them.
Added links will be viewable by all user groups. Might want to add the viewable by option.
Simple workflow actions like "Start" and "Stop" are AJAXED might want the same for the other actions.
Support multiple link types selection (Hierarchy based on a single link type but for all selected link types)

Version History

Version	Release date	state	Comments
0.7.5	Jan 30th 2009	Stable	none
0.7.4	Jan 14th 2009	Stable	none
0.7.3	Jan 14th 2008	Stable	none
0.7.2	Feb 12th 2008	Stable	none
0.7.1	Feb 1st 2008	Stable	none
0.6	May 12th 2007	Stable	Release Candidate

Screenshots

Lots of screen shots ...
Maybe to much, but I found them pretty neat

You can now also see the plugin at work:

N.B: The Permissions are restricted. You will only be able to toggle from Views.

Screenshots

Links Hierarchy Reports

Description/Features

1. Link Hierarchy Report For Versions

2. Link Hierarchy Report For Issues

3. Themes

4. Pluggable Themes

Usage

Todo

Version History

Screenshots

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