Each month I have to manually create a report for my team. For this I use a combination of numbers generated from a groovy script I’ve written, screenshot, cut & paste from a series of charts in our JIRA instance and cut and pasted excel charts.
I’m finding it more and more boring to do this by hand and I suspect that there is an easier way to automatically generate this report. I can generate the word document with data from the groovy script using this application (http://www.docmosis.com/) but I have not yet found a way of auto including JIRA charts in the generation or excel so my question is:
Is it possible to generate a word document that contains generated data from various sources including (in order of importance):
- JIRA charts
- Programmatically generate data and
- Excel charts?
Most of the charts generated in Jira are created from data returned from search results. So you can get data from Jira using REST or SOAP api and generate your own charts by other means.
I am not sure if there is a no-coding method of doing it. But I would write a C# program that adds data to the Word template from your sources (Jira, other programs, Excel). And would create a template that generated charts from inserted data.
For Word document generation I would have a look here -http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20287/Generating-Word-Reports-Documents
For chart creation in the document I would have a look here – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/create-a-chart-in-a-document-HP005190046.aspx