Issue Navigator Views
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The Issue Navigator is used within JIRA to find and filter issues. Once you have created a filter, you can save
it or view it using a number of different prebuilt 'views'. Each Issue Navigator view presents the currently
selected filter in a different way (for example as an Excel spreadsheet, or in XML).
To change views, simply select one of the links under Current View: (shown in the screen shot
below)
The different views are:
| Browser |
This is the default view. It uses HTML to show a single table row per issue with brief issue information.
If you have the filter pane hidden, a few extra columns are displayed. The issues are displayed a page at a
time.
This view is most useful to creating and previewing filters.
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| Printable |
The same as the Browser view, but it shows all issues in a printable format. |
| Excel |
The Excel view presents all the issues in the current filter as an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet can
then be saved (for example to email to a colleague), or edited to produce graphs and charts. It is also useful
for basic reporting and statistical tasks. |
| XML |
The XML view returns an extended RSS representation of the current filter. For more details see the RSS API section. |
| Full Content |
This view shows each issue maching the
filter with full content, including all comments and fields. This is useful
for printing. If you have a CSS2 compliant browser (like Internet Explorer
5+ or Mozilla), it will print one issue per page. |
The XML is also a full RSS API for JIRA. The XML view presents an RSS 0.9.2 feed of the current filter and also
includes a few additional fields for other JIRA information. With this XML, you can easily extract JIRA issue
data for use in other applications using a simple HTTP GET.
You can view a sample
RSS feed of the latest 15 issues reported on jira.atlassian.com.
The URL created by the XML link in the Issue Navigator contains all the parameters needed to
do an HTTP GET request from outside JIRA (for example from an RSS aggregator like AmphetaDesk).
(Note: to retrieve XML data without logging in, you must have a Browse permission turned
on for Anyone).
Using different URL parameters you can control the set of issues returned in the RSS. For details on these
parameters, see the HTML Issue Navigator Edit Filters form. Additionally, the tempMax parameter
can be used to control how many issues are returned in your RSS feed.
