How to add issues to your Panorama?

Panorama helps you to organize your issues from flat chaos to a beautiful hierarchical structure. You can build your structure on your own by creating directories and adding issues manually, but you can also tell Panorama to add specific issues automatically. In this article, we will quickly walk through different ways of adding your issues to your Panorama.

1) You can add the issues manually

Drag and drop

Probably the simplest way to add your first issue to your Panorama is opening the issue selector by clicking the "Add existing issues" button, then drag and drop the issues you want in your Panorama. You can also hold CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple issues and drag them all at once.

Bulk insert with a button

The other way to quickly insert many issues is by using bulk add button. You can add issues as a top-level of your Panorama, but you can also select a directory and add issues straight to that directory.

2) Your issues in the panorama can be automatically updated

Adding all the issues to your Panorama by hand may quickly become a cumbersome task, in modern projects where many issues are created on a daily basis it is especially important to make them appear in your Panorama automatically. That way, you can benefit from always up to date overview of your project with minimal manual work from your side.

Syncable Nodes

The first option to make issues automatically appear in your Panorama are syncable nodes. You can mark every node as a syncable, and it will automatically pull in all the children of the given node. It is especially useful when you add some epics to your Panorama, and you want all the stories and sub-tasks to appear as well. When epic is marked as syncable, any new stories added to that epic will automatically be added to your Panorama.

JQL Nodes

The second and most advanced option to make your issues automatically appear in your Panorama is JQL Node, where you can tell Panorama to add all issues matching given JQL Query. JQL stands for Jira Query Language and is a powerful language allowing you to define almost any possible issue set you may think of. For example, you can query issues of two projects: project in (ABC, DEF) and filter only those that were updated in the current year: updated > startOfYear() and are still not closed: resolution is EMPTY which gives us a resulting query:
project in (ABC, DEF) and updated > startOfYear() and resolution is EMPTY - possibilities are almost endless. Check our video showing how to add JQL Nodes to your Panorama and leverage the full power of Jira Query Language to build your Panorama.