Duncan GordonJXL answers the improbable question of "what if Jira and Excel had a baby". Well, as it turns out just like crossing an Olympic athlete with a Hollywood actor, it's as good looking as it is functional. In my experience every company has a Pro[ject|duct] manager or three hiding a spreadsheet somewhere in a dark corner of their laptop, and then manually updating Jira as a secondary target. JXL solves this madness, and at the same time provides the mass-edit interface that's so sorely missing, and that you desperately need when your job is not "deal with one ticket" but "deal with all the tickets". I'd advise pairing this with JQL Search Extensions which (I think?) is by the same company, as this allows you to do recursive ticket queries - i.e. take any ticket and find its children, and their children and on on down the tree. One view to rule them all. Atlassian should just buy this and make it the default interface, it's so much better. I'd rate it 10 stars if they'd let me. Indispensable.
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