By Robert Leitch on September 6, 2013
It's hard not to get a bit excited about Structure's user interface. It packs a whole load of goodness into an elegant and compact package.
An empty Structure board invites us to populate it with issues in one of two ways – using search to find existing issues in JIRA, or by creating a new issue directly from Structure.
Tip: Before diving headlong into the fray, remember that Structure needs to be enabled for any projects whose issues you want to deal with in a Structure. Otherwise you won't be able to find those projects' issues in search.
Once we have a selection of issues in our board, we can organize them using Structure's gorgeous drag and drop. Only video can do justice to how slick this looks:
That was one of the features that first got me really excited about working with Structure. Drag and drop may no longer be a great novelty in web interfaces, but Structure has made it extremely responsive and intuitive.
It's almost inevitable that you will accidentally drop an issue or a bunch of issues somewhere they shouldn't be. Structure has an easy way to remedy such mishaps – a dedicated 'Undo Drag and Drop' command that puts everything back where it was.
If you suddenly realize that you started dragging a whole load of multi-selected issues by mistake, you can just calmly drop them and Undo, or you can hit the Escape key on your keyboard to cancel the drag and restore them to their original positions.
In the context of JIRA project management, issue hierarchy alone is obviously a great feature for managing and visualizing projects. Being able to create and manage those hierarchical relationships so easily is one of the things that make Structure's interface fantastic for so many project management applications.
Feel free to download Structure for your JIRA or play with our online Structure demo.
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