Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning different projects and issues, and lots of project planning done on it, we need more and more reports with customized data according to our needs.
There are two different kinds of reporting available in JIRA:
Gadgets that can be added into a user's dashboard - gadgets are mini applications built using HTML and JavaScript that can run on any OpenSocial gadget container. They communicate with JIRA using REST APIs and retrieve the required information before rendering the display for the user appropriately. As the JIRA dashboard is now an OpenSocial gadget container, we can even add third-party gadgets onto it, provided they meet the gadget specifications. Similarly, JIRA gadgets can be added onto other containers like iGoogle, Gmail, and so on, but other gadget containers do not support all features of JIRA gadgets.
Normal JIRA reports - JIRA also provides an option to create reports that show...