Jira Dashboard Gadgets: Drill Down, Filter, and Sort Without Leaving the Page

Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira dashboard gadgets support a set of interactive options that used to be available only on the full Timepiece reporting screen: drill-down, live filtering and sorting, and view format changes.

Drill-Down

Timepiece Jira dashboard gadgets support drill-down on aggregate reports. If a gadget shows an average, sum, median, or standard deviation, you can click into any row and see the individual issues that make up that number. This matters most in the moment someone asks about a number on the dashboard. If a PM is in a stakeholder meeting and the average Cycle Time looks high, they can drill straight into that row and show exactly which issues are driving it up, without switching over to the full Timepiece reporting screen or pulling in someone else to run the report.

Filter and Sort

Gadget viewers can also change filter and sort settings directly from the dashboard, without editing the gadget's configuration. Previously, filters and sorting were locked into however the gadget was configured, and changing them meant editing that configuration, which usually meant needing edit access to the dashboard. 

Now anyone viewing the gadget can filter or re-sort it on the spot, which is useful in a sprint retrospective when someone wants to sort by "most time in Code Review" on the fly. It resets to the configured defaults on refresh, so one person's temporary filter doesn't change what everyone else sees.

Filter and sort are also available when you drill down into an aggregate report's details.

View Options

Dashboard gadgets also let the viewer change view options directly: the View Format (days, hours, minutes, and so on), whether Data Bars are shown, and whether Value Counts are visible, for report types that support it. 

This is useful when the same dashboard gets viewed by people who think about time differently. An engineer might want to see hours; an executive glancing at the same dashboard might prefer days. Instead of maintaining two gadgets, one gadget now works for both.

How to Track Cycle Time with Timepiece Gadget

If you're setting up a dashboard from scratch rather than tweaking a single gadget, our guide to building Jira KPI dashboards walks through combining Timepiece gadgets with native Jira gadgets to track Cycle Time, Sprint Health, and Lead Time on one screen.

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