Add Jira Cards to Any Workspace

The first thing you'll have to do after launching the Jira Issue data visualizer is connect to your Atlassian account.

Once you authenticate, you will be able to choose between creating a new issue or search for an existing issue to import.

To import an existing issue from your Jira instance, choose Search for Existing Issue. You can search for issue keys in your Jira instance using a standard text based search, an advanced JQL expression, or a custom filter from your instance.

SmartDraw will pull your Jira data in and let you see which issues to add to your visual. Simply, check the boxes next to the issues you want to create shapes for and click OK.

SmartDraw will add a card for each Jira issue selected. The card will contain the issue summary and key. SmartDraw will also pull in all the relevant icons, a link to Jira, the assignee, associated sprint, the issue priority, and so on.

To create a new Jira issue, choose Create New Issue from the Jira Issue data visualizer modal. You'll be able choose the Project you want to add an issue to and then specify the issue type, Epic, Sprint, assignee, fix version, priority along with a quick summary and description.

SmartDraw will create a shape for this new issue and add it to your diagram. The issue will also get added to your Jira instance.

Once you imported some Jira issues, the SmartPanel Tool view (click on the toolbox icon in the left bar) will have some relevant commands that let you update Jira tasks and even create new Jira cards to push into Jira.

To update a selected issue, click on Update Jira Issue. You can edit all the standard fields in the Jira issue like the issue type, summary, sprint, priority, assignee, and click OK to push your update to your Jira instance.

You can collaborate with your team in SmartDraw and if you have a new idea that comes up in a brainstorming session, you can easily add that as a new Jira issue and push that issue back to your Jira instance. Click Create New Jira Issue in the SmartPanel to bring up the dialog to add a Jira issue.