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You can manage your Jira settings (e.g. your password, email address, or the format in which you would like to receive email notifications) in your user profile.
Your user profile also displays recent work in the Activity Stream, and contains useful shortcuts to issues you have been working on or reported.

Change your Avatar

Select or your current avatar to change the image that appears next to your name in Jira.

Change default language in Jira

1. Go to your avatar > Profile at top right of the screen.

2. Select Manage your account.

3. Select Account preferences.

4. From Language, select your language.

More detailed instructions for managing your user preferences such as Avatar, Language, home page, e-mail notifications etc. can be found on the following Atlassian Page: Managing your user profile.

Home page

Jira Home Page is the landing page when you open Jira or where you can easily go back to via the Yamaha logo button.

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By default the Jira Home page is set to Dashboards and it will open the most recent selected Dashboard. You are able to change the Jira Home Page to other options like Boards for example. 

SelectImage Added or your current avatar to change the Jira Home Page.
Then click on the wanted option.  Landing page will refresh automatically to have the setting confirmed.

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Jira basics

Projects

Data inside Jira is organized in 'projects'. A project is a collection of items (issues). 
A Jira project is a single place to manage work. Every project has a workflow (issues follow this workflow from creation to completion).

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