Writing a JIRA report

As we just mentioned, a JIRA report can display statistical information based on all elements within JIRA - for example, issues, projects, users, issue types, and so on. They can have HTML results and, optionally, Excel results.

To add new reports in JIRA, you can use the report plugin module. The following are the key attributes and elements supported:

Attributes:

Name

Description

key

This should be unique within the plugin.

class

Class to provide contexts for rendered velocity templates. Must implement the com.atlassian.jira.plugin.report.Report interface. Recommended to extend the com.atlassian.jira.plugin.report.impl.AbstractReport class.

i18n-name-key

The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin ...

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