Jira Align Enhancements - Dependencies
Asked by Dominique Greene:

Hi, my company just migrated to Jira align and it's not as user friendly as Jira. The formatting is horrible and makes long text rough to read. I find myself exporting information into excel just to understand what's going on with dependencies. There's no reporting around dependencies, difficult to tell what new dependencies came in for my products. There's no way to sort by create date, the columns aren't able to move or the text does not wrap, there's no way to see last comments like you can in jira. That is just a fraction of the complaints that I have or others have about the tool. Is there any enhancements to make reporting possible on dependencies or the ability to create custom reports. We are forced to do extracts into Tableau just to understand some of the information we need. Thank you.


Answers:
author: Allan Maxwell
body: **"** **The formatting is horrible and makes long text rough to read."** Can you clarify? I can read it just fine on my 21-inch monitor, Google Chrome in Full-Screen mode and magnification @90%.

![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.21.14 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294940iC619AE75D32CFF9D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.21.14 AM.png")

**"There's no reporting around dependencies..."** Could it be a permission issue? I see several reports:

![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.53 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294945i26D367D3D609E569/image-dimensions/313x121?v=v2 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.53 AM.png")![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.38 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294947i63FA0CB0FD5280BF/image-dimensions/191x141?v=v2 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.38 AM.png")![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.07 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294944i24ED21E100167333/image-dimensions/284x229?v=v2 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.27.07 AM.png")![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.26.29 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294946iD5BB9278199707ED/image-dimensions/287x283?v=v2 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.26.29 AM.png")

**difficult to tell what new dependencies came in for my products** Have you tried filtering?

![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.32.02 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294950iCCDB0057637E091D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.32.02 AM.png")

**difficult to tell what new dependencies came in for my products.** You have tried the "ToDo" view?

![Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.39.57 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/294954i6FA1072946E7122E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.39.57 AM.png")

**There's no way to sort by create date, the columns aren't able to move or the text does not wrap, there's no way to see last comments like you can in jira. That is just a fraction of the complaints that I have or others have about the tool.**

All true. We are currently working on rewriting most of the views to allow for column resizing and reordering. I strongly encourage you to fill out enhancement requests as we are always seeking to improve the product.

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author: Sam Tsubota
body: [@Dominique Greene](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5223672) \& [@James Webber](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5096569) , Enterprise Insights enables you to build custom reports and dashboards for your specific use cases with a data visualization tool such as Power BI or Tableau. Here is a video that provides a demo of Enterprise Insights: <https://youtu.be/DIm_Ql3kP_k?si=itc4O07_xXe-Cpi4>


author: Heidi Hendry
body: It's possible to extract data with API and also Enterprise Insights, if your company purchased that.


author: James Webber
body: We are experiencing the same issues and likely to move all our dependencies back into a Jira project. We extract the dependencies in Jira Align and use Power BI to report on them.