You can view and edit structures directly from your Jira dashboard with the Structure Dashboard Gadget. The gadget can also be imported into Confluence and included on a Confluence page.
Structure gadget is added as any other gadget: click the Add Gadget button in the top right corner of the dashboard, find "Structure" and click Add It Now. You need to have change permissions on the dashboard (if you don't have permissions to change the dashboard, you can try to create a copy using Tools | Copy Dashboard).
You can add several gadgets showing different structures on the same dashboard.
When you first add a gadget to dashboard, the gadget configuration panel appears with a dimmed preview of the gadget below. (The same panel is shown when you use the Edit command from the gadget header drop-down or when you edit macro with Structure gadget in Confluence.)
To configure the gadget:
Deselect Allow Changes to protect the structure from accidental changes, such as changes caused by drag-and-drop or hitting the Delete key.
It may be useful to have different View and Visible Rows settings when the gadget is maximized. In this case, you can use the wide screen of the maximized gadget's window optimally and see more information for the same structure. Select Alternative settings when maximized to configure these parameters.
There are several ways to configure view (columns) for the gadget.
Start with an existing view and modify it.
To use this method you need to have Update permission on the modified view.
If the view you are changing is used in other gadgets, you will be modifying other gadgets' columns configurations as well.
If the user viewing the gadget does not have Use permission on the configured view, the gadget will show a default view with only Issue Key and Summary as columns.
When you see the "View has been adjusted. Save | Revert" message in the gadget footer, it means that you have changed the columns configuration for this gadget. These changes are local and are effective only in the same browser they were made in. Click Save to save and share the changes or Revert to go back to the configuration stored on the server. See Saving and Sharing Views for details.
The Structure gadget contains a stripped-down version of the standard Structure widget that you see on other pages. Because the screen space available to a gadget is usually limited, it lacks features like search and secondary panels. It also doesn't have a toolbar. However, most keyboard shortcuts are functional. If the gadget allows editing, you can rearrange issues with drag-and-drop; you can also move, create, edit, and delete issues using the keyboard.
Structure Dashboard Gadget is a bit limited when it comes to editing issue fields, due to some incompatibilities between field editors and gadget framework. Because of this, only a handful of fields can be edited from within Structure Gadget. See Editing from Gadget for more details.
If the gadget is displayed in its "home" Jira dashboard (not in Confluence or elsewhere), the last column lets you use the action drop-down for issues.
Working from the Structure Board provides the most unrestricted Structure experience. To get to the Structure Board from a gadget, click the Open link.
The structure will open on Structure Board with the same filters and transformations that were applied in the original gadget. For examples, if the gadget only shows items from a specific project, sorted by Assignee, that's exactly what you'll see on the Structure Board. To review or remove these transformations, click the Transformations button in the panel toolbar.