Shields - more awesomeness in JIRA

Introduction

Add more awesomeness to your JIRA and create custom shields on your issues. Field can be used to create shields from almost any JIRA standard field or custom field.

Shield field support multi-value fields. Plugin will generated shields based on number of values for given field.

Check administrator section for more details on configuration

Shields can be visible in all places that supports custom fields:

  • Jira gadets and dashboards - download and view issue attachments directly from Jira Dashboards
  • Jira issues list view.
  • Confluence Jira macro - download and view issue attachments on Confluence pages
  • Third party plugins that can use embed other custom fields.
  • Reports.

Examples

One shield is generated for each fix version

One shield is generated for each combination of component and fix version.