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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

Editing an active workflow


We have seen how the workflow plays an important role in configuring our JIRA and how we can write plugins to add more workflow conditions, validators, and post functions. Once these plugins are added, we need to modify the workflow to include the newly created components at the appropriate transitions.

Modifying an inactive workflow or creating a new workflow is pretty easy. You can add the conditions/validators/post functions when you create the transition or just click on the transition to modify them. But to edit an active workflow, there are a few more steps involved which we will see in this recipe.

A workflow is active when it is being used in an active workflow scheme that is tied to a project. You can check whether a workflow is active by navigating to Administration | Global Settings | Workflows.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to edit an active workflow:

  1. Login as a JIRA Administrator.

  2. Navigate to Administration | Global Settings | Workflows.

  3. Click...