Trial Version
The trial version of The Connector will display a trial screen before each option of the tool. To continue to use the trial version, simple press the “Continue with Trial” button. The trial version is fully functional for 30 days from the date of the installation.
Once you purchase your copy of The Connector, you will receive a product registration key that can be entered into the register screen. Once registered, the product is fully functional.
Project Setup
Before using The Connector within a given project, it must be initialized through The Connector setup. This will automatically appear whenever trying to access JIRA functionality within an un-initialized project plan.
The plug-in will prompt you with the above message indicating that the project file has not been initialized. Click “OK” will take you to the Project Setup Dialog.
To setup a Microsoft Project file to use with The Connector, you must specify which of the Microsoft Project custom fields will be used to store the related JIRA issue information.
NOTE: The JIRA project is optional and may be left blank. If you specify a value here, new tasks will automatically be created under this project unless you override that value through the issue editor.
To select a project, you may either type in the project ID, or use the “Browse JIRA Projects” option to select a project from a list.
Each project must be initialized with the custom fields built into Microsoft Project for storing the JIRA issue ID, JIRA issue status, JIRA issue type, JIRA issue priority and other JIRA data. There are 30 available text fields on each project task, but you may only use each field once.
NOTE: Different project files can have different configurations for these values. This allows for flexibility and customization as needed in case those custom fields are being used by other 3rd party or custom plug-ins. These options default based on what is configured under the “Configuration” dialog.
Once these values are provided, press the “OK” button and the project file will be initialized. Once initialized, there is nothing else that is needed to be done and you are able to use The Connector.