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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling access logs in JIRA


Access logs are a good way to find out who is doing what in your JIRA instance. In this recipe, we will see how we can turn on access logging in JIRA.

How to do it...

As of JIRA 4.1, the list of users who are currently accessing JIRA can be found from Administration | System | User Sessions menu. But if you need more detailed information about who is doing what, access logging is the way to go.

In JIRA 4.x, enabling access logs can be done via the administration screen by going to Administration | System | Logging & Profiling as shown in the following screenshot:

We can turn ON HTTP and SOAP access logs separately as shown. There is an additional option to turn ON HTTP dump log and SOAP dump log as well. For HTTP, we can also include images in the HTTP access logs.

All these logs are disabled by default and if enabled via GUI, it will be disabled again on next restart.

In order to enable them permanently, we can switch them ON in the log4j.properties file residing...