jira-cards

A command line tool for generating scrum cards from jira. It allows you to customise the styling of the scrum cards using an erb template.

Installation

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Configuration

When you first run the tool it will ask you:

  • The url to your jira instance e.g. jira.atlassian.com
  • A username & password for accessing jira. Whatever user you use must be an admin
  • Path to the wkhtmltopdf e.g. C:\\Program Files\\wkhtmltopdf\\wkhtmltopdf.exe
  • If you want to use the default templates
    • If no, the path to the template erb & css file

You can view the current configuration using the config command:


jira-cards config

If you want to change the config, you can use the reset flag:


jira-cards config --reset

Commands

Issues

For printing individual issues.

—output: The path you want the pdf written to

e.g. c:\foo\bar.pdf

—keys: The issue keys you want to print

You can specify individual keys (separated by comma), e.g.


jira-cards issues --keys "foo-1, foo-4, foo-10" --output c:\temp\test.pdf

You can also specify ranges (a la ruby ranges) of keys e.g.


jira-cards issues --keys foo-4..foo-10 --output c:\temp\test.pdf

or you could go crazy and have both!


jira-cards issues --keys foo-4..foo-10,foo-14,foo-21..foo-35 --output c:\temp\test.pdf

Iteration

For printing all issues for a team for a specific version.

—output: The path you want the pdf written to

e.g. c:\foo\bar.pdf

—project: The name of the team

e.g. “Foo Team”

—version: The version you want to print cards from

e.g. “Iteration 30”


jira-cards iteration --project "Foo Team" --version "Iteration 30" --output c:\temp\test.pdf

Templates

The scrum cards are generated from an erb html template which is then converted to pdf using pdfkit. There is a default template however if wish to customize the look/fields you will need to set the path to the erb template and css stylesheet in the configuration (if you want to change the config: jira-cards config —reset). You can access all of the issues via the @issues variable (an array of issues). Common Properties:

  • issue_type: e.g. Story, Bug, Epic
  • summary
  • key
  • assignee
  • points
  • custom fields: all custom fields are available, e.g. “Business value” would be bussiness_value

Have a look at the default template to see an example.