Configuring your General Configuration

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You must have the 'JIRA Administrators' global permission to configure GreenHopper's General Configuration settings.

You can configure a number of GreenHopper settings globally (i.e. across all projects in your JIRA instance), ranging from colour schemes to your Task Board layout. A number of these global settings also exist as project settings. Your project settings will override the equivalent global settings.

To configure GreenHopper's global settings,

Log in as a user with the 'JIRA Administrators' global permission.
Bring up the administration page by clicking either the 'Administration' link on the top bar or the title of the Administration box on the dashboard.
Click the 'GreenHopper' link under the 'Global Settings' section in the left navigation column. The 'GreenHopper Configuration' page will display (see screenshot below).
The following global GreenHopper settings will be available for you to configure:

Please note, all changes made on the General Configuration page are applied immediately.

Screenshot: GreenHopper Global Settings (click to view larger image)

Restricting GreenHopper to Selected Projects

You can restrict the projects that GreenHopper is available to. If you restrict a project from using GreenHopper, this means that you will not be able to select your project from the Planning Board, Task Board, Chart Board or Released Board. Please note, the 'Agile' dropdown menu will still appear on projects that don't have GreenHopper access, however if you try to view any of the boards they will default to the last project that was viewed on that board.

To restrict GreenHopper to selected projects,

Find the 'Choose applicable context section' on the 'GreenHopper Configuration' page.
Select the 'Apply to these projects' option. The 'Project list' and 'GreenHopper projects' select boxes will become enabled.
Move projects between the two select boxes by using the '<<' and '>>' buttons.
- 'Project list' — this list contains the projects that do not have GreenHopper access.
- 'GreenHopper projects' — this list contains the projects that are available within GreenHopper.

Screenshot: Restricting GreenHopper to selected projects

Registering GreenHopper Listeners and Services

GreenHopper ships with a number of useful listeners and services that can help you maintain the integrity of your GreenHopper data.

To enable listeners and services for GreenHopper,

Find the 'GreenHopper Listeners and Services' on the 'GreenHopper Configuration' page.
Enable the desired listener/service, as follows:
- 'GreenHopper night service' — Check the checkbox for this field to enable this service. The GreenHopper night service will optimise and repair the GreenHopper ranking fields of your projects every night. You can also manually trigger the optimisation of your GreenHopper ranking fields via your general project settings.
- 'Versions Synchroniser' — Check the checkbox for this field to enable this listener. The Versions Synchroniser will ensure that your version hierarchies are respected by detecting and repairing all the issues that are missing some versions based on your version hierarchies.
- 'Components Synchroniser' — Check the checkbox for this field to enable this listener. The Components Synchroniser ensure that your component hierarchies are respected by detecting and repairing all the issues that are missing some components based on your component hierarchies.

Screenshot: Registering GreenHopper Listeners and Services

Limiting Task Board Issues

You can limit the maximum number of issues displayed on the Task Board to reduce resource consumption. If the number of issues exceeds the specified number, the Task Board will ask the user to narrow the number of issues by using filters from the context.

To limit the maximum number of issues displayed on the Task Board,

Find the 'Limit GreenHopper resources' on the 'GreenHopper Configuration' page.
Select the 'Ask users to filter issues if exceeding' option and specify the maximum number of issues to display on the Task Board in the text box below.

Setting Global Defaults for Project Settings

You can configure a global defaults for a number of project-specific GreenHopper settings. These include look and feel, scheduling permission, Task Board mapping, etc. The project settings will override these defaults, but if a project does not have any settings configured then the global defaults will apply.

See the documentation on the equivalent project-specific settings:

Additionally, the following settings can be configured globally only:

Non-Working Days

To increase the accuracy of the charts you can identify the non-working days for your project (e.g. Saturday and Sunday). These days will simply be withdrawn from the charts. In the case where worklogs are entered in a non working day, these worklogs will be associated to the previous working day to be reflected in the charts. You can enter the non working days that will affect all your JIRA projects from your JIRA Administration Console, i.e. 'Administration' -> 'GreenHopper' -> 'Non Working Days'.

To specify non-working days in bulk, edit the time-tracking within JIRA, e.g. if you set JIRA's time-tracking to five days, GreenHopper will take for granted that the weekends are non-working days. Go to 'Administration' > 'Global Settings' > 'Timetracking'. Disable it, change your day settings, then reenable it.

You can also define non-working days specific to a project by clicking the 'Edit' link that appears next to the words 'Non Working Days' at the top of every chart. See Using the Chart Board.

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