Before you start, your Jira Cloud administrator should grant you Administer Jira permissions to create, edit, watch, and export connectors.
Users with Administer Jira permissions always have access to Looker Studio Connector for Jira.
How to Export Data from Jira to Looker Studio
1. Create Access Token
An access token is a security credential used in web applications to authorize and authenticate a user or application’s access to specific resources or date.
We will use access token as a password for Looker Studio to securely transfer data.
You can create your token by accessing Looker Studio Connector inside your Jira Cloud instance.
If you need more information on how create access token, please refer to our step-by-step instruction.
2. Create Data Source
Now you need to create a data source for data you want to transfer from your Jira Cloud to your Looker Studio. You can easily do it by accessing the Date Source page inside the Looker Studio Connector for Jira.
You have to name your data source, adjust sharing settings, and filter the sections you’d like to be in your data source.
If you need detailed description of all fields of the Data Source page, please refer to this page.
If you need more information on how to create data source, please refer to our step-by-step instruction.
3. Export Data into Looker Studio
After creating access token and creating data source, you can easily export your data into Looker Studio. Being on the Data Source tab, select ↗ (the Open in Looker Studio icon), authorize, connect, and start working with your data.
If you need more information on how to export data, please refer to our step-by-step guide.
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