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Status badges & progress

Make child issues and linked issues easier to scan with status badges, Jira issue-type and priority icons, strike-through for completed items, and progress bars. Available in all editions.

Existing templates keep their previous appearance. These options are written explicitly only when you add a new Subtasks, Issue links or Progress bar component.

Child and linked issues​

Select a Subtasks component to configure:

  • Layout — a table, or individual panels. Panels keep one shared column header and show nested child issues with indentation and connector guides; turn off Show header when the labels are not needed.
  • Status style — plain text or a badge.
  • Show issue type icon — uses the Jira icon where available.
  • Strike through completed items — applies only when Jira reports the stable status category Done, so a renamed or translated status such as Abgenommen still works.
  • Show subtask progress — adds an issue-count bar across all displayed child issues, including recursively loaded ones.
  • Colour mode — colour, or a print-friendly monochrome palette.

The Issue links component offers the same badge, icon, strike-through and colour controls, plus an optional priority display.

Standalone progress bar​

Drag Progress bar from the Data section of the palette. It can measure:

  • Subtasks — every displayed child issue, recursively.
  • Linked issues — deduplicated by issue key.
  • Export set — the issues in a JQL, board, backlog, sprint or release export.

Choose Issue count or Story points as the basis. Story-point progress works with every source and uses the numeric custom field selected in the properties panel. Missing, non-numeric, zero and negative values contribute zero points, and repeated references to the same key are counted once.

Labels can show a percentage, a fraction, or both — for example 67% (2/3). An empty source shows 0% by default; enable Hide when the source is empty to remove the component instead.

Status categories and unknown data​

Colours and completion derive only from Jira's status category — To Do, In Progress or Done. Exportelier never guesses from a status name. Legacy data carrying only a name renders as neutral Unknown, counts in the progress denominator, and never counts as completed.

Differences between formats​

FormatStatus and iconsProgressCompleted items
PDFVector badges, Jira bitmap icons or a drawn fallback shapeVector bar with optional labelNative text strike-through
Word (DOCX)Shaded, bordered badge runs; Jira icons or a generic glyphProportional two-cell table with optional labelNative strike run
Markdown[DONE], [IN PROGRESS], [TODO] or [UNKNOWN]; issue types and priorities as textCompact text such as 67% (2/3)~~strike-through~~

Markdown deliberately embeds no bitmap icons, colour or emoji. This keeps the output portable and preserves Compact mode's token savings.

Icon handling and limits​

Icons are loaded only from Jira through Atlassian's product API. Exportelier adds no external network destination and stores no icon bytes in the saved issue bundle — the bytes exist only for the current render.

  • Up to 32 distinct icons per render.
  • Up to 128 KiB per icon and 2 MiB in total.
  • Four concurrent icon requests and a five-second total budget.
  • PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP are accepted; other formats fall back to a drawn generic shape.
  • A blocked, missing, oversized or timed-out icon never fails the export.

Accessible and print-friendly output​

Status text always remains visible, so colour is never the only signal. Use Monochrome for black-and-white printing or when a template should avoid semantic colour; badge borders and text contrast stay distinct. Markdown's explicit text markers are the colour-independent equivalent.