Getting an overview
Understanding the structure
The top level in Jira are projects. They serve as containers in which users create tasks sorted by topic.
The tasks themselves are called Issues in Jira:
- Depending on the context in which the Jira project is used, different task types are available.
- You can subdivide individual tasks into subtasks if necessary.
Within a project, you can further structure tasks:
- Components are sub-areas of a project. They can be used to group tasks in a project into smaller parts.
- Versions represent points in time in a project; tasks can be assigned to these versions.
Project administrators create and maintain the components and versions. They are only available in one project at a time.
Epics are available to link tasks across projects. They can contain any number of tasks from several projects. However, a task can be assigned to a maximum of one epic.
Dashboard
After logging into Jira with your u:account, you can see the Dashboard:
- You can see the menu at the top from any point in the system and use it for navigation. Clicking on the University of Vienna logo at the top left will take you back to the dashboard at any time.
- On the left side you will find a list of all projects for which you are authorised.
- On the right side, you will see those issues that are currently assigned to you for processing.
- At the bottom left, you can see the latest changes in the system in the Activity Stream.
When you open a project, you will find all relevant views of the contents of this project in the left margin. This can be one or more boards on which the current work status in the project is visualised (for example, a Kanban board). You can see at a glance which tasks are currently being processed.
