Enable some projects

Structure needs to be told which JIRA projects it can work with. Issues from these projects can then be accessed and managed in Structure.

By default, Structure is not enabled for any projects, so this is one of the first things you need to do after installation. See Selecting Structure-Enabled Projects for full details or watch this short how-to video.

Get issues into Structure

The first time you open Structure, you'll be greeted by an empty structure board. You need to put issues from your Structure-enabled projects in here.

Because then you can arrange your issues in a hierarchy like this

Issues can be added to Structure manually by searching for them in the search bar using plain text or JQL queries and then adding them from the results panel to the structure board.

You can also create and edit issues inline in the structure board, something I'm sure you'll enjoy endlessly.

Set up some views

The columns in the structure board can be added or removed, resized and moved around. When you're happy with the way things look, you can save the layout as a view so you can access it again later.

If you use the Testy extension for Structure, you'll know just how great views are

You can even choose to share your custom views with other users, or just keep them to yourself.

Learn the shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts help to reduce mouse wear. They also give quick access to a lot of commonly used functions. Type Ctrl+? in the structure board to bring up the Structure keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet.

My personal favourites are, well... all of them, really.

Get help when you need it

If you're unsure how to do something, please take a few moments to peruse our Structure documentation. It's very thorough and there's a good chance you'll find the answers to a lot of questions there.

Should you have no luck with the documentation, try searching Atlassian Answers to see if your question has been asked before, or contact our support team who are always happy to assist.

If things are just not working quite as they should, you might want to refer to the Structure troubleshooting guide.

Tell us what you want

According to lead Structure developer Pavel Zvyagin, approximately 68.3% of Structure consists of user-requested features. If you'd like to see Structure do something that it can't do yet, make a feature request.