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Activity streams not only show updates from the instance you are on but also from connected Jira or other Atlassian product instances (e.g. Confluence or Fisheye). For example, two companies working together on a project and linking up their Jira instances could be updated with new status changes of work at their partner's Jira through a unified activity stream.
Ex: Unified activity of Fd.io and ODL JIRAs
Unified Reporting Dashboard
Gadgets that draw their data from another linked and trusted Jira instance can be added to a Jira dashboard. This enables a unified reporting overview of all relevant instances. Next to the standard gadgets, you can also add additional gadgets. The applications are endless – from just one gadget that reports on a specific metrics of another project in another instance, to having one central instance in your federation that runs reporting of all projects in all Jira systems!
Ex: Unified activity of Fd.io and ODL JIRAs
Remote Issue Links
Remote links facilitates projects in tracking dependencies and other relations of issues to not just local projects, but to other LFN projects as well.
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