General Information
Environment | Server & Datacenter |
|---|---|
Price | Paid |
Goal | this addon give the possibility to add a color to issue status at Glance |
Description
With this Jira Server add-on, your Jira users will live in a full-color world! ... more beautiful than the usual and bored "blue", "yellow", "green" in the statuses of the issues. The colorization is done in the Issue Search View screen, in the Issue Screen and in the Jira Dashboard. With this plugin your Jira will looks like a pretty amazing software!. The list of colors that this plugin allows are the entire HTML common color name values. Take a Look inside the entire list of color names
Now compatible with the plugin "Kanban Gantt (jgantt) for Jira"
Use Jira Cloud & Google Chrome or Firefox? More information in this Firefox Support .
Install addon
Follow the classic way to install using the Find new apps, as shown below
General Configuration
We can set new color for own states easily. Just put the right color code (we can discover the right color code from this page, where there is a great explanation of all colors ) inside the Description field as show on following images: (put the colorname in lowercase and between parenthesis in the description)
example: (red), (orange) (springgreen), (black),…
Usage
Just select Search for Issue menu and result will be visible in:
Issue Search View screen
Issue Screen
Jira Dashboard
Kanban Gantt compatibility
Addon is compatible with Kanban Gantt and the task bars will be shown by status-colors.
Calendar view inside addon
Since version 4.1.1 a calendar view Calendar View inside Projects and a calendar gadget Calendar Dashboard Gadget is available, where we can get an overview of the situation at any time.
In order to be able to activate this view, the tasks in the project must have the DueDate value set. In this case we have the possibility to display a calendar with this information with colors based on the status color.
As shown in the following GIF, we can display the calendar by selecting, from the left-hand sidebar, the Add-ons item and from there the new Calendar item.
The calendar view can be switched on or off. Simply activate or deactivate it, as shown in the following GIF:
(disable the module “Issue Calendar Panel” inside the Status Colors add-on/license screen)
Just enable/disable the module : Issue Calendar Panel in Manage App Section.
An interesting trick
Since Jira 8, Atlassian overrides the status description and replaces the color for the standard one in the standard statuses. This is a problem? NO 
We are lucky and there is a trick to change the color in Jira 8 also for those situations. It and it's easy!
Just use the Translate status button
insert the color code in description
the result is ….
