Different ways of adding issues to a panorama

In this article you will learn how to add issues to your custom panorama. After reading this article will also have a better understanding about the differences between the possible options. You will be able to choose the best solution for your use case.

How to add the issues to your custom panorama?

After creating a panorama, you begin to build your structure. To import the issues from Jira, simply click “Add existing issues” and an issue picker will open. Panorama offers 4 different options of adding the issues. You’ll find the example use cases for each of them in their descriptions.

1) Adding issues with drag and drop

It’s the simplest way to add a first issue to your Panorama to see how it works.

Useful for:

• adding one or a few specific issues that are not already in your panorama

How to do it?

1. Open the issue selector by clicking the "Add existing issues" button

2. In the issue selector you’ll see the issues from your projects. You can either filter the issues using JQL (Jira Query Language) in the search bar or look for specific issues manually.

3. After you’ve found the right issues, drag and drop them into your Panorama. You can also hold CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple issues and drag them all at once.

2) Bulk insert with a button

Useful for:

• adding many issues at once to a panorama

• creating a custom structure with custom issue order and folders

• adding many issues under a specific folder or an issue

How to do it?

1. Open the issue selector by clicking the "Add existing issues" button.

2. In the issue selector you’ll see the issues from your projects. You can either filter the issues using JQL (Jira Query Language) in the search bar, or look for specific issues manually.

3. If you used JQL, click on the insert button with a “+” icon to insert the issues .
   If you searched for issues manually, first select them - you can hold CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple issues - and then click the insert button.

2) Your issues in the panorama can be automatically updated

Adding all the issues to your Panorama by hand may quickly become a cumbersome task, in modern projects where many issues are created on a daily basis it is especially important to make them appear in your Panorama automatically. That way, you can benefit from always up to date overview of your project with minimal manual work from your side.

Syncable Nodes

The first option to make issues automatically appear in your Panorama are syncable nodes. You can mark every node as a syncable, and it will automatically pull in all the children of the given node. It is especially useful when you add some epics to your Panorama, and you want all the stories and sub-tasks to appear as well. When epic is marked as syncable, any new stories added to that epic will automatically be added to your Panorama.

JQL Nodes

The second and most advanced option to make your issues automatically appear in your Panorama is JQL Node, where you can tell Panorama to add all issues matching given JQL Query. JQL stands for Jira Query Language and is a powerful language allowing you to define almost any possible issue set you may think of. For example, you can query issues of two projects: project in (ABC, DEF) and filter only those that were updated in the current year: updated > startOfYear() and are still not closed: resolution is EMPTY which gives us a resulting query:
project in (ABC, DEF) and updated > startOfYear() and resolution is EMPTY - possibilities are almost endless. Check our video showing how to add JQL Nodes to your Panorama and leverage the full power of Jira Query Language to build your Panorama.