Overview

The Workload user interface has been completely redesigned and improved to adapt it to JIRA 6. Not only is it now much easier to use Workload, it also has many more features:

This is Workload’s new look:

Top

To the left you will find the User Filter, used to see the workload for a user, the users in a group or the users in a project:

and to the right the controls for managing views in Workload:

Center

In the left part are the controls for filtering issues:

And to the right the display options for the calendar grid:

Bottom

The bottom shows the Workload information grid, where we find two different but interrelated parts:

List of Users and Tasks, listed according to the selection made using the controls at the top.

Calendar grid: Uses Workload colors (and optionally numerical values) to show the workload for each user, task and day over months or weeks, distinguishing between workdays and holidays and weekends.