Need to spot important changes and activities at a glance? With Highlight Activities in Work Item History – Smart Change Tracking for Jira, you can visually emphasize the work items and updates that matter most.
Use colors, icons, and custom rules to make important information stand out in your activity logs. Whether you want to identify overdue work, blocked items, unassigned work, or high-priority tasks, highlights make your activity view easier to scan and understand.
Highlight rules let you automatically apply visual styles to work items or specific columns when defined criteria are met.
For example, you can use highlights to:
Purpose | Example |
|---|---|
Track overdue work | 🔴 Highlight the row when the due date has passed |
Identify blocked work | ⚪ Highlight the row when the status is Blocked |
Find unassigned work | 🟡 Highlight the Assignee column when no user is assigned |
Identify missing estimates | 🟢 Highlight the row when Story Points are empty |
Prioritize urgent work | 🔵 Highlight the Priority column when priority is Highest |
Highlight Activities gives you three ways to define your rules:
🔹 Activity-Based Highlights : Highlight work items based on specific activities recorded in the history, making important changes easier to identify at a glance.
🔹 JQL-Based Highlights : Use custom JQL queries to highlight work items based on Jira fields, statuses, dates, priorities, and other criteria.
🔹 Conditional Highlights : Create rules based on field values and conditions, giving you a simple and flexible way to visually organize your activity data.
Make each highlight fit your needs with customizable display options:
Background color
Text color
Icons
Borders
Apply highlights to an entire row or a specific column
A live preview lets you see how your highlight will appear before applying it.
Highlights can be edited, enabled, disabled, or removed whenever your needs change, giving you complete control over how your activity history is displayed.
Ready to create your own highlight rules? Check out the Highlight Activities documentation for detailed configuration instructions and examples.
Make important activity stand out and turn your Jira history into a clearer, more actionable view with Work Item History – Smart Change Tracking for Jira.
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