Adding gadgets to our dashboard

In this section, we're going to talk about adding gadgets to our dashboard. We'll learn about how to add the filter results gadget to our dashboard, the pie chart gadget, and also the two-dimensional filter statistics. In reality, there's lots and lots of gadgets.

Let's go ahead and add some gadgets. Go back to JIRA; remember, we were dealing with my great dashboard, which we created in the last section.

There's something we should know about gadgets. First of all, there are lots of them, so JIRA comes pre-loaded with quite a few. Also, when we took a look at the Atlassian marketplace, there were about 95 different gadgets that were available for us to load into our dashboard as well. There's even a gadget there to help us when we create our own gadgets, so in addition to that, we can do things like reporting. This means that we can really extend a dashboard quite a bit to visualize all kinds of different things.

 

Let's take a look at the gadgets we want to add...