HI Sumedha Hope to make improvements on the gadget in the future and i hope Nuwan answered all your questions. thanks for the feedback
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sumedha, > > First of all the gadget is far from perfect to be added to the client > portal as it is. This was pulasthis 1st assignment, simply to understand how > gadget authoring works, consuming REST/JSON etc but with the intention of > making it useful for our ongoing work at the sometime. > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Sumedha Rubasinghe <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Pulasthi, >> Good work.. >> >> What are the advantage of these gadgets over the ones provided by JIRA >> itself? (apart from the fact these can run within our platform.. of >> course)... If these are going to the client portal, I would say we need to >> show more summarized view. >> > > At the moment Jira provides alot of gadgets, but sadly non of them are > portable (We can use them in our dashboard or not even in iGoogle). Even > though they have used the gadget spec they are using some custom shindig > features which perform all the communication. > > Few advantages are that this gadget can be used in our dashboard or in > iGoogle. The gadget is not written only to disply our issues, the use can > give any jira project URL, and retrieve the projects and other information > > >> >> IMO, the idea is for a client to see a summary of their projects using the >> portal & the go to the client support jira for more details if required. >> Considering the user base, manager type of roles will be interested in >> getting the summarized view, where as engineers would like to go to the >> actual jira. >> > > Yes I agree, still the gadget does not handle any authenticated user based > filtering, I believe pulasthi will improve this with the suggestions. > > >> >> Have you also considered the project summary view offered by JIRA itself? >> Have we considered the option of JIRA's gadgets rather than writing our own? >> > > Yes I have tried to use JIRA gadgets, but failed due to the custom features > they use. However with the REST API and the gadget development api they are > offering with Jira 4.2.2 update we can write much better gadgets. Hope this > will be considered when the Jira system in being updated (I did comment of > Jira update mail about this too) > > Thanks & regards, > /Nuwan > > > >> >> /sumedha >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Pulasthi Supun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> HI All >>> >>> I created a new JIRA issue tracking gadget for the Gadget server under >>> client information portal which i am assigned for my internship. This was >>> developed since the existing JIRA gadget supply's very little functionality. >>> When developing the gadget i looked into a few JIRA API's including >>> SOAP, XML-RPC and REST. Since the JIRA REST API is still not complete and >>> was only supported in JIRA 4.2+ it was decided on retrieving the data needed >>> by gadget using the "searchrequest-xml". This request will send back and >>> XML containing the issue data filtered by the parameter that are set in the >>> request.The XML is parsed to generate the view. The view is generated using >>> JQuery and JavaScript. >>> >>> Features: >>> >>> 1.Users can browse the issues related to a project by selecting the >>> project from the drop down menu >>> >>> 2.Users can use the search option to search the issues in JIRA according >>> to the following parameters >>> >>> - project (one or many) >>> - issue type (one or many) >>> - status (one or many) >>> - resolution (one or many) >>> - priorities (one or many) >>> - reporter >>> - assignee >>> - users can also use a text search to find a specific string within >>> comments,summary, description and environment >>> >>> >>> 3. Users can specify the organization in the gadget settings to use the >>> gadget for an organization of their choice >>> >>> This gadget will be available with the next Gadget Server release. >>> >>> below are some snapshots of the gadget >>> >>> [image: snapshot01.PNG] >>> >>> >>> [image: snapshot2.PNG] >>> >>> >>> [image: snapshot3.PNG] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Carbon-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Carbon-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >> >> > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > > Nuwan Bandara > Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > http://www.nuwanbando.com > > <http://www.nuwanbando.com/> >
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