Getting Started

There are a few different ways to get to Jira but the easiest is through the portal.

Once you log into the portal navigate down to the ops tab under toolkits

Click the hyperlink to take you to the Jira sign in page

You can also just follow this link

Depending on if you've migrated your jitbit account or not, your Jira account may be associated with either your @eng.umd.edu account or your @umd.edu account

The best way to check is to just try signing in using both emails and if one doesn't work you'll know not to use it.

If you click on "[Campus] UMD CAS" you'll get redirected to the central authentication service where you can sign on with your standard credentials

If you click on "[Internal] ENG G suite" you'll get redirected to a google login page and you'll have to enter your @eng.umd.edu email and password

Once you log in, you'll probably begin your Jira journey on the Terrapin Works dashboard

Add this page to your bookmarks so you can get to it easily

You'll be able to see issues that have been assigned to you as well as their priority

There are quick links to places you might want to go up at the top of the page like creating an issue

One of the most useful visualization tools in Jira are the Project Boards which have been setup for every labspace

To get to your lab specific board you'll want to click on the "Boards" drop down in the top ribbon

Once you've opened the list click on view all boards to locate your labs board.

Once you've visited a board it'll show up in this column where you'll be able to get to it quickly

Click on the link you'll be presented with all the boards on Jira

Don't get overwhelmed, you can simply type your lab's three letter initialism into the search tab to find it easily

This is what a Kanban board for the AFL looks like, you're able to see the progression of projects across the screen from project ideas to completed

If the board feels a bit crowded for your liking, you can click on 'only my issues' to see just the issues you've been assigned

If you click on a project it will bring up an issue's detailed side ribbon

You'll be able to see the issue's details like it's assignee, reporter, when it was created, label(s), description and a stream of the comments made about the project

If you click the hyperlink at the top of the issue it will take you to the detailed view of an issue which will be discussed in the next step

Another way to navigate to this board is by going under projects and then clicking on "View All Projects" then under the categories on the left ribbon click on "[TW] Lab Projects" and you'll see all the relevant projects to the labs

The issue is the main designation we use for projects and this is the detailed view of them.

There are a couple different ways of getting here whether its from the front dashboard, the navigation ribbon or from a board, they should all get you here.

You'll be able to track progress on your issue as well as edit it and log hours but that will be explained in later dozukis

The last helpful page are the dashboards which is what you'll see on the display screens at each lab.

To get to the dashboard for you lab click on the dashboards drop down on the navigation ribbon

Then click on the manage dashboards link

Once in the dashboard manager click on the search tab

Then you can either type your labspace into the search bar or just click the search button

Once if your lab specific dash board you'll be able to see the kanban board for the lab, as well as a calendar which will have the shifts for all the LM and SLM's in the lab.

If you scroll down a bit further, you can see issue statistics for the projects based on their label and assignee.