Jira displays little coloured dots that seem to indicate the length of time an issue has spent in the column. If you hover over the dots it displays a tooltip telling you how long the issue has been in that column.
That would all be great except I don't know what the number and colour of the dots actually means, without hovering over them to see the tooltip. What's the point in even having coloured dots if the exact meaning of them is kept a mystery?
I don't like mysteries, so I set about trying to reverse engineer the meaning.
Yes I did try RTFM first, but the documentation is horrendously confusing and frankly quite disappointing for a popular application in 2019. I can't even see what version of Jira (Cloud?) I'm using - the about screen says "Jira 2c6be9a9" which looks like a version control commit ID. It also mentions "Jira Service Desk Application 3.3.0-OD" but that doesn't seem right because Wikipedia says the latest version of 7.13.0.
Investigation:
- View source of Jira board, drill down to find the widget: <span class="ghx-field">
<div class="ghx-days more-then-5" data-tooltip="5 days in this column" original-title=""></div>
</span>
I schlepped through all the page assets but I couldn't find the actual images used. Still at least we now know the "time taken" thresholds: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 12 and 20 days.
Based on empirical observation, I would tentatively map as follows:
Based on empirical observation, I would tentatively map as follows:
- 1 day: O
- 2 days: OO
- 3 days: OOX (yellow)
- 5 days: OOOX (red)
- 8 days: OOXX (red)
- 12 days: OXXX (red)
- 20+ days: XXXX (red)
Key:
O = grey
X = colour
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