5 ways to integrate Jira with Google Sheets for prioritization

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JIRA is one of the most widely used tools for project and task management. Depending on your organization, your team can use a Jira project to organize product development, track a project, operate a support desk, and more. Jira projects can also be customized and personalized to meet the needs of you and your team. Some people want raw data to create a dashboard to track key performance indicators. Others need to generate reports to predict a project’s start date. Therefore, we often need to export the data from Jira to Google Sheets. To modify an employee’s financial balance, Jira financial tickets may be required. There are plenty of additional scenarios that necessitate the usage of a spreadsheet.   

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One of the primary benefits of integrating Jira with Google Sheets is the ability to prioritize your Jira backlog by exporting it into Google Sheets, assigning weights to tasks, creating formulas, and calculating the totals. In this article, we will explore the different ways of integrating Jira with Google Sheets to help you prioritize your Jira Backlog and analyze the pros and cons of each. We will also look at some alternatives to Google Sheet that provide additional functionality and features.

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Google Sheets and Prioritization

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Quick Overview

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Methods of Integrating Jira

We will rank different methods according to their effectiveness in prioritization:

1- Specialized prioritization and alignment software

Ducalis.io

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Procedure

You can integrate Ducalis.io with Jira in 5 steps:

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Pros & Cons 

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2- Google Sheets alternatives – Airtable, Coda.io, ProductPlan, Notion

This kind of software serves as an alternative to Google Sheets while offering additional functionality. 

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Airtable 

Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid that combines database capabilities with spreadsheet functionality. It enables users to create a database, configure column types, add entries, link tables together, collaborate, sort records, and publish views to third-party websites. It can be used to manage projects, track and arrange inventories, plan events, and much more.

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Am I using Jira Server or Jira Cloud? Examine the URL you use to access Jira:

• If your access URL is “.jira.com or .atlassian.net,” you are using Jira Cloud. 
• If your access URL is “jira.mycompanyname.com,” you are using a Jira Server.

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Procedure for Jira Server

Requirements for integration

You will need the following tools to build a successful integration between JIRA Server and Airtable:

1. A basic understanding of JavaScript.
2. JIRA Server Access.
3. An Airtable API Key and access to Airtable.
4. Jira server integration GitHub Repository.
5. Node.js v8 or higher.

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Step by step guide

Your goal is to create a node.js sample application that:

• Sends a GET request to obtain all issues from a Jira Server Board after logging into Airtable and Jira Server.
• Adds the new records to your Airtable database.

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Process

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Procedure for Jira Cloud

Requirements for integration

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Step by step guide

The Jira Cloud app prompts you to connect to a Jira account when you first add it to your dashboard. Allow Airtable to connect to Jira Cloud by following the on-screen instructions:

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Process