Setting start and end dates on JIRA calendar
Asked by Kevin Tomasso:

New to the community. I've setup a JIRA calendar in Team Calendar, and want to set a start and end date to show the duration of a scheduled task. When I go to each task from Team Calendar, the "to" date in the "When" field is disabled. I would assume this would default to "due date" set in JIRA, but it is simply the "created date" (meaning both dates are the same). Is there a way to set a start and end date from a JIRA project?

I've seen mention of a ghant chart plugin, which seems helpful, but would like to try using the defaults first if they can achieve our desired effect.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Kiven,

Good question. Just to clarify a few things. At the moment:

\* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start date of any issue date.

Out of the box in JIRA, you have "Created date" and "Due date". If you want, a lot of customers add custom fields in JIRA (e.g. Start Date, End Date, Deployment Date etc...) and you map them in Team Calendars

\* Team Calendars lets you visualise the start and end date of any GreenHopper sprint

You just need to set the Sprint start and end date (which you do) when creating a GreenHopper sprint

\* Team calendars lets you visualise the _due date_ for a JIRA version

Note: This is ONLY the due date at the moment. So it doesn't give you the duration. This is because JIRA did not have a concept of a "version start date" for a project. Only recently, JIRA now has a concept of a Version start date. So now we have the possiblity for team calendars to visualise the start and due date for a particular version for a project. You may want to watch /vote/comment on this ticket to stay updated: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1361>

Hope that explans the many different things you can visualise! It can seem like a lot, but it's quite powerful. Do any of those meet your needs or explain it a bit better?

comments: author: Tsol
body: Hey Sherif,

i'm evaluating team calendars and i was trying to visualize the duration of a JIRA issue according to Planned Start and Planned End fields from JIRA Agile. From what i have seen only the start and end date are marked and not the duration.

Do i miss something?

Thanx in advance,

Kostas


author: Sherif Mansour
body: @kostas you need to select "add start and end date" for a date range: <http://cl.ly/image/1H2S0A0F1x0u>

then you pick the planned start and planned end dates from the JIRA issue.


author: Adina Moldovan
body: Hi,

I'm dealing with a similar situation: I would like to use 'Team Calendars' to plan the sprints.

Therefore, I understand that I need a custom field to add the start date.

For the end date though, I wouldn't hardcode it. I think it would be more useful for the team to use the estimation given for the issue. Is there a way to dinamically see this as end date in 'Team Calendars'?

Thanks,

Adina


author: Mike Wells
body: I have the same issue as you; I also tried Gantt Charts, they were rather an overkill for the intended purpose. Plus the performance was an issue. I'll post here if I find something useful!


author: Gary
body: Hi Kevin,

First, welcome to the community - glad to have a fresh face!

Since Projects are meant to be static, there is not a way to set start or end date for a project. We would reccomend using versions in JIRA:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Versions>

Sprints with Greenhopper:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Sprint>

or Epics with Greenhopper:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Setting+Up+Epics+for+your+Project>

Cheers,

Gary


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