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Practical guides on Jira and monday.com reporting — what the platforms do natively, where they stop, and how to close the gaps.

A full-page Jira report: one filter bar over KPI tiles, charts and a pivot table

JiraAugust 26, 20268 min read

When Jira dashboards aren't enough: four ways to build full-page reports

The gadget grid is right for team status and wrong for real reports. Four realistic routes — tuning the native dashboard, moving the report to Confluence, exporting to Sheets or BI, and full-page dashboard builders — with the honest limits of each.

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A Plugio Suite filter bar: scope, period and field filter chips

JiraAugust 15, 20269 min read

12 things native Jira dashboards can't do — and how Plugio Suite does them

A shared filter bar for every gadget, throughput dashboards anchored to Resolved, previous-period comparisons, viewer-editable filters, cycle time as a metric, sentences that update with the data.

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The Plugio Panels rules editor: colour bands with From, Up to and Color columns

JiraAugust 15, 202610 min read

The Jira issue view shows the ticket, not the work around it: 12 gaps Plugio Panels fills

Story point rollups that respect sub-task overlap, linked issues grouped by link type with totals, time-in-status as a headline, a release countdown, a risk matrix, per-issue-type panels with JQL conditions.

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A story point progress bar: 49% done, 21 of 43 points

JiraAugust 12, 20267 min read

How to roll up story points from sub-tasks to stories and epics in Jira

Summing story points from sub-tasks to stories and epics: the scattered native options, the automation-rule workaround step by step, and an honest look at where each approach runs out.

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