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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

Adding conditions for web fragments


As we saw in the previous recipes, adding a web fragment is pretty easy. However, the job doesn't stop with that always. In many cases, we would want to limit the web item based on a set of conditions.

For example, an Edit Issue link should only appear for people with edit permission on an issue. An admin link should appear only if the user is a JIRA Administrator. In this recipe, let us look at how we can implement conditions for displaying web fragments.

How to do it...

It is possible to add one or more conditions to a web section or a web item. In the latter case, the conditions element is used, in this case, a collection of condition/conditions elements and a type attribute. The type attribute is either the logical AND or OR.

For example, the following condition specifies that the user should have either the admin permission or use permission in a project before he/she can see the web fragment that has the following condition:

<conditions type="OR"&gt...