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Pushing your plan back to Jira

Mermix is a two-way tool. You pull work in from Jira, plan it on the calendar, and then push your changes back so Jira stays the single source of truth for the rest of your organisation. This guide covers the push side.

How Mermix knows what changed

Every time you pull, Mermix remembers the exact values it read from Jira for each issue — its dates, assignee, estimate, and sprint. When you move a bar, reassign it, resize it, or drop it into a different sprint, Mermix compares the new value against what Jira last had. Anything that differs is pending — a change waiting to go back to Jira.

There's no "save to Jira" button to remember to press per task, and nothing is ever pushed behind your back. A badge on the Push button simply counts how many issues have pending changes.

What can be pushed

You change in Mermix Goes back to Jira as
Move or resize a bar Start date + Due date
Drag a bar to another person Assignee
Change the estimate Original estimate (time tracking)
Drop a task across a sprint boundary Sprint assignment
Unschedule a task you'd previously pushed Clears the dates in Jira

Task progress stays in Mermix. The progress slider is a Mermix-only concept for tracking how far along work is — it never writes to Jira and never counts as a pending change.

Pushing your changes

  1. Click Push to Jira (or press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P). The push drawer opens.
  2. Each pending issue is listed with a clear before → after for every field that changed — for example "24 Feb → 26 Feb" or "Unassigned → Maria".
  3. Tick the changes you want to send (everything is selected by default) and click Push. You'll watch each issue update in real time.
  4. Once an issue is pushed, its values match Jira again, so it drops off the pending list automatically.

If your calendar already matches Jira, the drawer just tells you everything is in sync — there's nothing to push.

Push history

The drawer keeps a short history tab so you can see recent pushes — who pushed, when, and which fields moved from what to what. Handy for a quick "did that go through?" check.

Pull and push are independent

You're always in control of both directions and always shown what will change before it happens. For the pull side, see How to configure Jira for Mermix and How Mermix schedules your Jira issues.