# JXL Data Center release notes

Feature change log of JXL for Data Center.

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# 2024

# 8 Oct 2024 v4.0.8

More smart columns

Smart column: Domain of reporter
Smart column: Domain of assignee

# 28 Sep 2024 v4.0.7

Attachment preview chips

Hover over attached files to show metadata and media preview chips

# 16 Sep 2024 v4.0.5

Configurable number cell format

Configure cell format of number columns with thousands and decimal separators, decimal places, unit symbols

# 28 Aug 2024 v4.0.0

Drag and drop rows to re-group and re-level issues, configurable date cell format

Re-position issues across structure, hierarchy, groupings, and update all relevant fields by dragging and dropping rows
Configure cell format of date and date time columns using Unicode tokens
Most fields of text, number, date, date time, select, user, group, version types by third-party apps are now supported as table columns

# 2 Apr 2024 v3.6.2

Color Custom Fields app custom field support

Picker color custom field column
Select color custom field column

# 25 Mar 2024 v3.6.1

Work calendar

Optionally define a work calendar to ensure your work time is taken into consideration in history and smart column measurements

# 7 Mar 2024 v3.6.0

Embeddable sheet presentation, smart columns

Dedicated focused sheet view to embed in Confluence pages
Smart column: Affected version status
Smart column: Affected version description
Smart column: Fix version status
Smart column: Fix version description

# 19 Feb 2024 v3.5.6

Rich text improvements

Improved formatting and copy-pasting in rich text columns, including JEditor rendered fields

# 13 Feb 2024 v3.5.4

More history and smart columns

History column: Previous status
History column: Number of assignee changes, with configurable assignees
Smart column: Affected version release date
Smart column: Time since affected version release date
Smart column: Fix version release date
Smart column: Time to fix version release date

# 31 Jan 2024 v3.5.3

Status column improvements

Optionally hide looped transitions from the Status cell menu

# 23 Jan 2024 v3.5.2

More history columns

Time with assignee column, with configurable assignee
Time in status with assignee column, with configurable status and assignee
Time between statuses with assignee column, with configurable statuses and assignee
Date of status, with configurable status
Time since status, with configurable status
Date of status change, with configurable transition
Time since status changed, with configurable transition
Number of statuses, with configurable status
Number of status changes, with configurable transition

# 2023

# 20 Dec 2023 v3.5.1

History columns

Time in status column, with configurable status
Time between statuses column, with configurable statuses
Number of updates column

# 8 Nov 2023 v3.4.0

Hide and redact columns, small improvements

Hide columns to save different column layouts in views
Redact columns temporarily
Improvements to adding and removing columns
Improvements to searching in menus

# 24 Oct 2023 v3.3.1

Full page, editable Parent link cells

Expand your sheets to the full page for an even bigger table experience
Cells in Parent link columns are now also editable

# 4 Oct 2023 v3.3.0

Column filtering and table search improvements

Choose whether ancestor and descendant issues of column filtering and table search matches stay visible in results
More options to format Issue links, Linked issues, and Sub-tasks cells

# 29 Sep 2023 v3.2.0

Column filtering and table search improvements

Choose separately which levels of your hierarchy or structure each of your column filters and table search applies to

# 20 Sep 2023 v3.1.1

Sheet details, sum-up style

View metadata and add a description to your sheets
Percentile sum-up style

# 13 Sep 2023 v3.1.0

Choice of column filtering style, regular expressions search

Choose between column filtering styles text, number, date, date and time, time, or option filter
Use regular expressions in text column filtering, table search, and text conditions of conditional formatting
Optionally include column headers in CSV and TSV sheet exports

# 4 Sep 2023 v3.0.5

Sheet folders, more smart columns

Organise sheets in folders by typing two forward slashes // in the sheet title to nest it in a folder
Additional cell format options for Issue links column
Smart column: Sub-tasks progress
Smart column: Linked issues (as opposed to Issue links)

# 8 Aug 2023 v3.0.2

Assets, ScriptRunner, and Elements Connect custom field support

Custom field type: Assets single referenced object
Custom field type: Assets multiple referenced object
ScriptRunner Scripted Field custom field column
Elements Connect legacy Live text custom field column

# 2 Aug 2023 v3.0.1

Configurable Issue links cell content, column header format

Configure which issue link descriptions are included in Issue links columns' cells
Choose from 100 colours to format both foreground and background of column headers

# 18 Jul 2023 v3.0.0

Issue ranking

Drag and drop table rows to re-rank issues using Global rank fields (drag and drop to re-group and re-level also planned in the future)

# 3 Jul 2023 v2.8.9

ScriptRunner column, conditional formatting improvements

ScriptRunner Multiple Issue Picker custom field column
New lime colour shades in conditional formatting

# 28 Jun 2023 v2.8.8

Custom fields support

Custom field type: Global rank

# 15 Jun 2023 v2.8.7

Smart column

Smart column: All commenters

# 12 Jun 2023 v2.8.6

Column filtering improvements, Jira Workflow Toolbox columns, smart column

You can now use a Me (current user) value in user field column filtering
Jira Workflow Toolbox Calculated text custom field column
Jira Workflow Toolbox Calculated number custom field column
Smart column: Linked issue types

# 17 May 2023 v2.8.4

Editable Issue links cells, Elements Connect columns

Cells in Issue links columns are now also editable
Elements Connect Live text custom field column
Elements Connect Live user custom field column
Elements Connect Snapshot text custom field column
Elements Connect Snapshot date custom field column
Elements Connect Snapshot datetime custom field column

# 10 May 2023 v2.8.3

Hierarchy visualisation improvements

Summary column values are now indented with tree branches according to their hierarchical depth (this can be disabled in column preferences)

# 3 May 2023 v2.8.2

More smart columns

Smart column: Sprint goal

# 15 Apr 2023 v2.8.0

Scope composer improvements, collapse expand level improvements

In addition to JQL queries, pick saved filters as sheet scope
In addition to the context menu actions, collapse and expand levels from a menu in the table toolbar

# 27 Mar 2023 v2.7.0

Dark theme, more columns

Choose from the original light theme that you're used to, a new higher-contrast light theme, and our beautiful new dark theme
Issue creator column

# 1 Mar 2023 v2.6.0

Scheme permissions, issue linking improvements, smart columns

Manage who can view and create, edit, delete sheets via scheme permissions
Copy and paste values in Issue links column
Optionally add issue summary to Issue links and Sub-tasks columns
Smart column: Status changed date
Smart column: Linked issue statuses
Jira Misc Custom Fields Calculated Number custom field column
Jira Misc Custom Fields Date custom field column
Jira Misc Custom Fields Date/Time custom field column

# 3 Feb 2023 v2.5.2

Multiple line text preview chips, more smart columns

Hover over multiple line text cells to show untruncated rich content preview chips
View in search action in context menu
Smart column: Issue link types
Smart column: Issue link descriptions
Smart column: First sprint
Smart column: Last sprint
Smart column: Active sprint
Smart column: Open sprint
Smart column: Future sprint

# 28 Jan 2023 v2.5.1

Copy sheets between projects, more columns, more level visibility options

Copy sheets between projects
Last viewed date column
Smart column: Time since last viewed
Option to hide child and bottom level issues without parents
Option to hide issues that are outside of levels

# 23 Jan 2023 v2.5.0

Enhanced conditional formatting, Jira keyboard shortcuts

Choose from 90 colours to format both foreground and background of cells and rows
Enabled Jira keyboard shortcuts in JXL pages, including the "gg" administration quick search (also known as dot menu)

# 12 Jan 2023 v2.4.6

Assets custom field support, smart column

Custom field type: Assets object
Smart column: All comments (when exported, all comments, their authors, times and dates are included)

# 2022

# 8 Dec 2022 v2.4.3

More smart columns

Smart column: Issue URL
Smart column: Customer portal issue URL
Smart column: Issue ID
Smart column: Project key
Smart column: Project ID

# 6 Dec 2022 v2.4.2

More smart columns

Smart column: Sprint status
Smart column: Sprint closure

# 4 Nov 2022 v2.4.1

Empty options in date and number column filtering

Empty and not empty options in date and date time column filtering
Empty and not empty options in number, time since, and time tracking column filtering
Configurable cell edit action of comments column

# 27 Oct 2022 v2.4.0

Views, sheet sharing, more columns, time tracking format

Save frequently used states of features and preferences as views in sheets
Share sheets with views enabled with other users
Configurable display format in time tracking columns

# 5 Sep 2022 v2.3.2

More column sum-ups

Sum-ups in "Time since..." columns with configurable sum-up style

# 17 Aug 2022 v2.3.1

New issue structure preference

Choose whether issues can be listed multiple times in the table across the hierarchy in structures

# 9 Aug 2022 v2.3.0

Conditional formatting, ScriptRunner and Multi-Level Cascading Select columns

Format background colour of cells and rows if field values meet specified conditions
ScriptRunner Single Issue Picker custom field column
Multi-Level Cascading Select column
Smart column: Images

# 14 Jul 2022 v2.2.0

Column freezing

Freeze columns on the left of the table

# 11 Jul 2022 v2.1.0

Issue counts in groupings

View issue counts in grouping rows

# 15 Jun 2022 v2.0.0

Site migration

Use the new migration feature to move your sheets between Jira sites

# 1 Jun 2022 v1.5.6

Smart columns

Smart column: Number of labels
Smart column: Number of components
Smart column: Number of affected versions
Smart column: Number of fix versions
Smart column: Number of sub-tasks
Smart column: Number of issue links
Smart column: Number of issues linked
Smart column: Number of attachments
Smart column: Number of comments

# 23 May 2022 v1.5.5

Image file viewer, smart columns, not empty in select column filtering

Insitu file viewer for image attachments
NOT EMPTY option in select column filtering menus
Smart column: First commented by user
Smart column: Last commented by user

# 4 May 2022 v1.5.4

Issue security

Security level column

# 3 May 2022 v1.5.3

In-app help, column filtering improvements, smart columns

In-app help panel
Select all action in column filtering menus
Use EMPTY keyword with logical operators in text column filtering and table search
Project category column
Smart column: Project type
Smart column: Project configuration type

# 23 Mar 2022 v1.5.0

Field sum-ups, smart column

Sum up table contents
Sum up groupings
Add sum-up levels to custom issue structures
Smart column: Time to due date

# 2 Mar 2022 v1.4.1

Global permission, smart columns

Manage who can make bulk changes to issues in sheets
Smart column: Date of first comment
Smart column: Date of last comment

# 23 Feb 2022 v1.4.0

Issue grouping, Easy Agile Programs columns, smart columns

Group issues by field values
In addition to hierarchy levels, use grouping levels in custom issue structures
Easy Agile Program column
Easy Agile Program increment column
Level-specific column filtering preference now also applies to the table search
Smart column: Time since status changed
Smart column: Time between created and resolved
Smart column: Last updated by user
Smart column: Last update action
Smart column: Number of sprints
Smart column: Attachments size

# 8 Feb 2022 v1.3.0

Global permissions, read-only columns, more custom fields support

Manage who can view and create, edit, delete sheets via global permissions
Optionally make columns read-only in your sheets
Custom field type: Single version select menu
Custom field type: Multiple version select menu
Custom field type: Readonly plain text

# 5 Jan 2022 v1.2.9

Relative date column filtering and expand/collapse levels

Filter date and time columns relative to now (e.g. today, or from yesterday to X days from now, etc.)
Expand and collapse entire levels from the context menu when issue hierarchy is enabled

# 2021

# 15 Dec 2021 v1.2.7

Hierarchy level filtering and level-specific column filtering

Hide issues without children in hierarchies
Control which hierarchy levels column filtering applies to

# 10 Dec 2021 v1.2.6

Row numbers

Optionally add row numbers for easier referencing of table positions in meetings

# 6 Dec 2021 v1.2.5

Rename columns

Change the heading of table columns in your sheets

# 29 Nov 2021 v1.2.3

Advanced search syntax with logical operators

Use logical operators (OR, AND, NOT), grouping (parentheses) and exact phrasing (quotation marks) in text column filtering and table search field

# 25 Nov 2021 v1.2.2

Custom field support

Custom field type: Projects

# 23 Nov 2021 v1.2.1

Adaptable sheets

Open sheets with an adapted scope and title using URL parameters

# 22 Nov 2021 v1.2.0

Custom issue hierarchy, time tracking formats, expand/collapse all issues

Create custom structures based on Advanced Roadmaps parent linkage, issue links, and more
Time tracking columns now observe Jira display format and default unit settings
Expand and collapse issues actions in context menu when issue hierarchy is enabled

# 4 Oct 2021 v1.1.4

Sheet starring

You can now pin your favourite sheets in the sheets directory and sheets menu by starring them

# 1 Oct 2021 v1.1.3

Sheets browsing improvements

Switch between recent and alphabetical sorting in sheets directory and sheets menu

# 28 Sep 2021 v1.1.2

SLA columns

Table columns for Jira Service Management SLA time fields

# 23 Sep 2021 v1.1.0

Issue hierarchy

Group issues by hierarchical relationships (Advanced Roadmaps issue levels also coming soon)

# 1 Sep 2021 v1.0.0

Initial public release

All current features of JXL for Jira Cloud are now available for Jira Data Center and Server

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