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Create a live connection to Jira Service Management Data in CData Connect Cloud and connect to your Jira Service Management data from MicroStrategy.
MicroStrategy is an analytics and mobility platform that enables data-driven innovation. When you pair MicroStrategy with CData Connect Cloud, you gain database-like access to live Jira Service Management data from MicroStrategy, expanding your reporting and analytics capabilities. In this article, we walk through connecting to Jira Service Management in Connect Cloud and connecting to Connect Cloud in MicroStrategy to create a simple visualization of Jira Service Management data.
As a cloud-based integration platform, Connect Cloud is ideal for working with cloud-based BI and analytics tools. With no servers to configure or data proxies to set up, you can simply use the web-based UI to create a live connection to Jira Service Management and connect from MicroStrategy to start performing analytics based on live Jira Service Management data.
Configure Jira Service Management Connectivity for Microstrategy
Connectivity to Jira Service Management from Microstrategy is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Jira Service Management data from Microstrategy, we start by creating and configuring a Jira Service Management connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Jira Service Management" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Jira Service Management.
You can establish a connection to any Jira Service Desk Cloud account or Server instance.
Connecting with a Cloud Account
To connect to a Cloud account, you'll first need to retrieve an APIToken. To generate one, log in to your Atlassian account and navigate to API tokens > Create API token. The generated token will be displayed.
Supply the following to connect to data:
- User: Set this to the username of the authenticating user.
- APIToken: Set this to the API token found previously.
Connecting with a Service Account
To authenticate with a service account, you will need to supply the following connection properties:
- User: Set this to the username of the authenticating user.
- Password: Set this to the password of the authenticating user.
- URL: Set this to the URL associated with your JIRA Service Desk endpoint. For example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.
Note: Password has been deprecated for connecting to a Cloud Account and is now used only to connect to a Server Instance.
Accessing Custom Fields
By default, the connector only surfaces system fields. To access the custom fields for Issues, set IncludeCustomFields.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Jira Service Management Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- Oa the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Jira Service Management data from MicroStrategy.
Connect to and Visualize Jira Service Management Data Using MicroStrategy
You can connect to Jira Service Management in MicroStrategy by adding a data source based on the native SQL Server functionality. Once you have created a data source, you can build dynamic visualizations of Jira Service Management data in MicroStrategy.
- Open MicroStrategy and select your account.
- Click Add External Data, select Databases, and use Select Tables as the Import Option.
- In the Import from Tables wizard, click to add a new Data Source.
- Select "SQL Server" in the Database menu and select "SQL Server 2017" in the Version menu.
- Sat the connection properties as follows:
- Server Name: tds.cdata.com
- Port Number: 14333
- Database Name: the name of your Jira Service Management connection (e.g. JiraServiceDesk1)
- User: a Connect Cloud user
- Password: the PAT for your Connect Cloud user
- Data Source Name: a name for the new external data source, like "CData Cloud Jira Service Management"
- Expand the menu for the new data source and choose "Edit Catalog Options"
- Edit the "SQL statement retrieve columns ..." query to include TABLE_SCHEMA = '#?Schema_Name?#' in the WHERE clause, and click Apply and then OK (the complete query is below).
SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_SCHEMA NAME_SPACE, TABLE_NAME TAB_NAME, COLUMN_NAME COL_NAME, (CASE WHEN (DATA_TYPE LIKE '%char' AND (CHARACTER_SET_NAME='utf8' OR CHARACTER_SET_NAME='usc2')) THEN CONCAT('a',DATA_TYPE) ELSE DATA_TYPE END) DATA_TYPE, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH DATA_LEN, NUMERIC_PRECISION DATA_PREC, NUMERIC_SCALE DATA_SCALE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME IN (#TABLE_LIST#) AND TABLE_SCHEMA='#?Schema_Name?#' ORDER BY 1,2,3
- Select the new data source and select the Namespace that corresponds to your virtual Jira Service Management database (like JiraServiceDesk1).
- Drag tables into the pane to insert then. Note: Since we create a live connection, we can insert whole tables and utilize the filtering and aggregation features native to the MicroStrategy products to customize our datasets.
- Click Finish, choose the option to connect live, save the query, and choose the option to create a new dossier. Live connections are possible and effective, thanks to high-performance data processing native to CData Connect Cloud.
- Choose a visualization, choose fields to display, and apply any filters to create a new visualization of Jira Service Management data. Data types are discovered automatically through dynamic metadata discovery. Where possible, the complex queries generated by the filters and aggregations will be pushed down to Jira Service Management, while any unsupported operations (which can include SQL functions and JOIN operations) will be managed by the CData SQL engine embedded in Connect Cloud.
- Once you have finished configuring the dossier, click File -> Save.
Using CData Connect Cloud with MicroStrategy, you can easily create robust visualizations and reports on Jira Service Management data. For more information on connecting to Jira Service Management (and more than 100 other data sources), visit the Connect Cloud page. Sign up for a free trial and start working with live Jira Service Management data in MicroStrategy.