Prerequisites
You will need the latest Microsoft Visual Studio for Office Runtime (VSTO 4.0) from Microsoft installed on your PC. It can be downloaded directly from Microsoft here.
Installation
There is not differentiation between Office 32- and 64-bit installation anymore, below installer works on both setups.
Latest released installer: Excel2Jira_Setup_4.6.4.3.msi
Release notes: Excel Addin Latest Updates
Quick Start
The add-in will add a new ribbon tab, "JIRA", to your Excel interface.
If the new ribbon tab is not visible, please follow these steps.
Security considerations
The communication between our Excel Plugin and Jira on your instance works via REST API communication. This way of communication is end-to-end encrypted when the user enters a HTTPS Jira link in the settings. The used encryption can be defined in your Jira instance, see https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-modify-the-ssl-tls-version-jira-uses-for-outbound-connections-1064093000.html for more details.
If the user select the “Remember Me” option in settings for the instance, the account´s password is stored encrypted on the local computer in the settings file. You can find the settings.json
file at the folder
%appdata%\ease solutions\Office to Jira Integration
Logfile
To easier identify issues in the communication and data quality, the Excel Plugin can create logfile on demand:
Enable "Write Debug Logs" in the instance settings
Get the file "excel-log.txt" from "%appdata%\ease solutions\Office to Jira Integration" folder
"excel-log.txt.*" are older files, up to five files stored.