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.
There is not differentiation between Office 32 and 64 bit installation any more, below installer works on both setups. |
Latest Installer: R4J_Excel_4.1.0-651-combined.msi
Release notes: Excel Addin 4.1
The add-in will add a new ribbon tab, "JIRA", to your Excel interface.
If the new ribbon tab is not visible, please follow the steps described here. |
Before working with your issues, the connection to JIRA must be configured first. To do so, select the option Settings and enter your JIRA URL, username and password. With Save as... you can setup connections to different Jira servers.
Options:
Afterwards, you can extract issues with the Load Data option and upload them with the Upload Data option. See the user guide.
To easier identify issues in the communication and data quality, the Excel Plugin can create logfile on demand: