Data Source Page Overview

Owned by Liliia Ostrovska
Last updated: Feb 27, 2024
4 min read

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

 

General Settings

 

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

  • Dataset name* - This field allows you to enter the name of a dataset for exporting data to BigQuery. Dataset is a resource where your Jira data will be located. 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.

 

Share Settings

 

These settings allow you to share your data source with users or groups who have permission to use BigQuery Connector.

  • Users - This setting allows you to share your data source with other users. You can select as many individual users as you need to. The user can be searched by login or full email.

  • Groups - This setting allows you to share your data source with groups. You can select as many groups as you want to.

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

Search and View Settings

 

Search Section

 

The Search box - This box allows you to quickly find, and then add to your export issue filters you need.

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

 

Configure View

 

Configure view - 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.

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

 

Select Tables Section

 

These settings allow you to select or cancel selecting Jira standard tables and fields (Jira Work Management, Jira Software, Jira Service Management) and also tables and fields of different plug-ins installed on your Jira Cloud instance (e.g. Xray, Projectrak, Tempo, and more).

 

Save and Preview Section

 

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

  • 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.

 

 

 

Additional Features

 

All these settings are applied to already existing data sources.

  • Export data - This button exports the data source to BigQuery.

 

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

  • Auto-export - This function allows you to configure auto-export (auto-refresh) of the data source.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Preview ERD - This function allows you to view the Entity Relationship Diagram for a data source.

  • Set BQ Key - This function allows you to connect your service account key to your Jira data source for further exporting.