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Areas and their dashboard
Sections of a project, each with its own icon and dashboard.
An area is a stable section of a project, like Website, Ops or Mobile. Every issue sits in exactly one area, and an area holds epics, which hold the tasks. Areas show under their project in the sidebar with their open-task count.
Add an areaLink to this section
Hover a project in the sidebar and click its +, or pick Add area from the project's right-click menu. Type a name and press Enter.
The button beside the name picks an icon and colour. They show in the sidebar, the command palette, the project dashboard and the issue panel. You can change them later with Icon and colour in the area's right-click menu.
If the project has never had an area, Suru Me sets up the field for it the first time. See Setup happens as you go.
To rename an area, click its title on the area's page or pick Rename… from its right-click menu. It stays in its project folder, its area folders and epics come along, and an open area page moves to the new address. Area names can't contain /.
Adding, renaming and styling areas needs permission to change the project in YouTrack. Without it, those options don't show.
Pick any colourLink to this section
Click the swatch with the eyedropper to open your device's colour picker, type a hex code like #3a7bd5 (or the short #38d), or take one of the suggested colours under it. No colour takes it off. In the suggestions, the arrow keys move from one colour to the next.
YouTrack only has its own fixed set of colours for values, so a colour from outside it is saved in the area's description in YouTrack (as color:#3a7bd5, next to the icon), and the area's YouTrack colour becomes the closest one from that set. Your team sees the exact colour in Suru Me and a close one in YouTrack.
The area dashboardLink to this section
Click an area to open its dashboard at /p/<KEY>/a/<area>. It answers one question: is this moving, and is it keeping up?
Four numbers sit at the top:
- Open, with how many are new this week.
- Started: open work past the workflow's first status, shown as a share of the open work.
- Done this week.
- Gone quiet: open issues nobody has touched for 14 days or more.
The main column lists every open epic with its folder and progress, then a Flow chart of issues created against issues closed for each of the last 8 weeks, with one line saying whether the backlog is growing or shrinking, then recently active issues.
The side column has Status, Who's on what, the Gone quiet issues (oldest first) and Due. Below it, the same Calendar and Time logged panels as the project dashboard, for this area only.
The area's issuesLink to this section
List and Board on the dashboard open the area's issues at /p/<KEY>/a/<area>/list. The Overview button there takes you back. The area stays highlighted in the sidebar on both pages. See Lists.
Delete an areaLink to this section
Pick Delete area from its right-click menu. If the area is empty, it goes at once, with a spinner on its row while YouTrack catches up. If anything is in it, you choose what happens to its issues:
- Move them to Unsorted. This is picked by default.
- Move them to another area, folders and all.
- Delete them too.
Group areasLink to this section
Put areas into a project folder to group them in the sidebar. See Folders.