Plan Features
Activity Dashboard
Quick and efficient representation of scheduled tasks per each person in every specific week.Every row corresponds to one person of selected team, every column is one working day of the week:Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.Blue bars are Jira issues scheduled to specific days.
Workload Indicator
Workload Indicator displays how many hours are allocated per each person per each work day based on remaining estimate of scheduled Jira issues. In addition, it displays week summary of allocated hours per every person.Different color indicates workload in hours of a day.
Task Estimates at hand
View estimates directly on the dashboard. Small light green box will indicate the estimate of how much time is remaining for the task to be finished. Overdue tasks are marked in red color.It represents Jira's "Remaining Estimate" field.
Drag'n'Drop Interface
Assign, schedule, estimate tasks simply by dragging/resizing blue bars around the screen.
Different scopes/scroll scopes
Switch back&forth between Long and
Short term planning easily.Scroll through whole periods (Month/Quarter) using special views.
Milestones Panel
Define projects' milestones, sprints, deadlines etc. View Jira issues based on a Due Date field and add your own milestones on that panel.Filter Milestones Panel events by team with a single click. Milestones panel is located above the regular schedule.
Work with teams not individuals
Filter issues by teams, configure multiple dashboards per different teams. One person can belong to multiple teams.
Quick Issue Search
Start typing issue key or any word from issue title and get results immediately. Search results are sorted by relevance so that the system is trying to show most relevant issues on top.
Filter/Groups/Sort
Manage your backlog through filtering/grouping them by numerous criteria.Use your saved Jira filters as well as your Boards and Sprints.
Group Issues with single click
One click and already filtered issues are getting grouped by project/priority/status/release or assignee.
Use Native Jira Filters or JQL
Confugure any filter in Jira, make it as one of your favorites and use it in ActivityTimeline's issues panel.
Quick Access to Jira interface
Left mouse click on any blue issue box will open standard Jira issue dialog in AJAX popup frame. Middle mouse button click (or left click with Ctrl key hold) - will open issue in a new web browser tab or window.
Color Coding
Visually differentiate/highlight tasks that need attention from the regular ones.For example, you may use Red color to highlight all tasks that need an immediate follow up.
Advance Planning
Switch working week by just one click. Schedule tasks for next weeks or months in advance. Book resource's time for some particular task in advance
Informative Feedback
Every action accompanying a notification that shows if action is performed or failed.
Auto issue scheduler
Let the system automatically schedule (plan) Jira tasks you choose for optimal workload.You could choose which tasks you would like to auto-schedule: all assigned to a team/person or the filtered ones.The system can even schedule Placeholders instead of real Jira tasks so you can review and approve them later on.
Placeholders for tasks
Don't want Jira to send a lot of email notification while you are planning different scheduling scenarios?
Use placeholders for Jira tickets and replace them with actual Jira tasks when the plan is settled.Create Placeholder for an issue by drag'n'drop it with Ctrl/Command key hold.
Approval Workflow
Vacations, Bookings and Placeholders support approval workflow.One user can create them but the other with Admin/Power User permissions should approve it.
Tracking of Estimates
Quickly see if a task is on track, overestimated or underestimated.
Generate Issue estimates tracking report when needed.
Track blocked issues
Get visual display of blocked issues with a red text color. Do not schedule conflicting issues and always stay on track with the overall project.
Personal Planning Features
Schedule own issues
Give users possibility to manage their personal workload.
Person Card
Manage skills of your personnel. Generate Skill and Position Availability Reports.
In-line worklog edit
Do you allow your users to edit worklogs in Jira? - If yes, then why not to allow to do it all in one line from AT?
Timesheets Features
Progress Timesheet report
Track how your team logs hours and if everything is according to schedule.Extremely easy to see and understand, who forgot to log his work.
Worklog approval
Approve users' worklogs just in one click! You can also perform bulk operations for the whole team at once and save your time from opening each and every worklog record
Data grouping
Generate aggregated reports, grouped by chosen criteria.Get a clear picture of the situation for individual projects/assignees/ issues.
Report Features
Workload Report
Generate an HTML or MS Excel report based on scheduled tasks to see planned workload for teams and individuals.The system uses "Remaining Time Estimate" field to calculate the workload. In addition, an enhanced project level workload report is available in both HTML and Excel formats.
Timesheet Report
Generate Timesheet Reports based on logged work.Team Summary, Team Detailed by Project and Team Detailed by Issue worklog reports available in Web and Excel formats.* for Jira Cloud and Jira 7 and above.
Availability Reports
Generate People Availability/Capacity Reports based on scheduled work hours.
Check availability of different users
Need some users for future projects? - Check their availability in a special report.
Track days off and vacations of your users
Never lose track of non-working days of your employees. Generate useful report to stay on the same page with their Vacations and Days off.
Additional Features
Automatic Synchronization with Jira/Jira Agile
Every change in Jira will show up on ActivityTimeline's Dashboard (issue title, type, priority, status, assignee and/or Jira custom fields for planned start/end dates) and every update to issue on AT Dashboard will be propagated to your Jira database (assignee and/or Jira custom fields for planned start/end dates).
ActivityTimeline REST API
Access ActivityTimeline custom data through REST API (admins only).Create custom events like Booking, Placeholder, Vacations, Holidays and so on programatically from the data in other systems.
Languages
ActivityTimeline user interface is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Ukrainian and Chinese languages. Administration screens are available in all mentioned languages.
Use your favourite Web Browser
We support Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge and IE 10/11.* ActivityTimeline looks nicer in modern web browsers rather than IE 9.
Permissions Management
Six different user roles/permission to limit access to the dashboard.
Dark Theme support
Switch between Light and Dark theme of the application to match your and your operating system preferences per each user.