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Title Settings

Below you can find a description of the fields, buttons, and settings of the data source creating page.

  • Name* -This field allows you to enter the name of your data source. The field is required.

  • Description - This field allows you to enter a description for your data source. These might be some hints you might need in the future. This field is optional.

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Share Settings

Share settings -

This option allows you to share the data source with users, groups, or project roles who have permissions to use the application.

  • Select users Users - This setting field allows you to share your data source with individual users.

  • Select groups Groups - This setting field allows you to share your data source with groups you have within your instance.

  • Select project roles Project Roles - This setting field allows you to share your data source with users who have the appropriate project roles.

  • Allow re-sharing this data source - This setting allows users to share data source that was shared with them.

  • Save - This button applies all settings/changes.

  • Clear - This button erases all information you have entered.

  • Cancel - This button revokes applying settings/changes.

Note

Other users who have access to Power BI Connector for Jira app might not get all data from this data source due to different Jira permissions.

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Search and View Settings

Search Field

  • Search field - This search box simplifies the search for the required field you want to be displayed in the report.

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The amount of found issue filters will be shown on each tab you have.

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View Options

  • View options - This setting allows you to adjust the appearance of the issues. You can select what option to display: Show IDs or Show Types. The Show Names option is a default. All options can be selected at once.

    • Show IDs - This is how your fields will appear in Microsoft Power BI.

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The screenshot presents how the options are displayed in the UI, using matching colors.

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If needed, you can expand or collapse all tables at once by selecting Expand all or Collapse all respectively.

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Select Issues Section

  • This section allows you to select or cancel selecting issues (tables) for exporting. This section displays standard Jira fields and all installed and configured plug-ins.

    • Jira CoreWork Management - This part of the section displays a list of regular Jia Core fields and items.

    • Jira Software - This part of the section displays a list of regular Jira Software fields and items if Jira Software is licensed.

    • Service Service Management - This part of the section displays a list of regular Jira Service Desk fields and items if Service Management is licensed.

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All the other fields are displayed depending on what plug-ins are installed on your instance.

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Save and Preview Section

After creating and editing your data source, you can select one of the following options what to do with it.

  • Create Save - This option creates your new data source or updates if you edit an existing data source.Preview -This option allows you to check the source name, source description, issue filters, and export items.

  • Preview ERD - This option allows you to view the Entity Relationship Diagram for your connector support data source,which is generated based on the checkboxes you have selected before.

  • Close - This option allows you to escape the data source create page if you no longer want to do it.

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This screenshot displays how the Preview button works. Once you select it, the pop-up window will appear with the view of your data source, so you can check if all changes are correct.

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This screenshot displays how the Preview ERD button works. Once you select it, the pop-up window will appear with the view of an Entity Relationship Diagram for tables and fields selected in the data source.

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Additional Feature

All these settings are applied to already existing data sources.

  • Copy Link - This button copies the data source URL to the clipboard to use for data export.

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The Actions (three dots) panel introduces you to different actions:

  • Edit - This option allows you to make changes to the data source.

  • Clone - This option allows you to make a copy of the data source.

  • Archive - This option allows you to mark the data source as archived, data source will be moved to the Archived tab.

  • Preview ERD - This option allows you to view the Entity Relationship Diagram for adata source.

  • Export History - This option allows you to view export history entities.

  • Delete - This option allows you to remove the data source.

  • Share Settings - This option allows you to distribute the data source to users who have permission to use this app.

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