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Mastering JIRA

By : Ravi Sagar
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Mastering JIRA

By: Ravi Sagar

Overview of this book

<p>JIRA is an issue-tracking tool from Atlassian and has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its ease of use and, at the same time, its customization abilities and finely grained control over various functions. JIRA offers functionalities for creating tasks and assigning them to users and many useful add-ons can be added such as JIRA Agile for Agile tracking and Groovy scripts, a powerful tool for administering customizations for customizations.</p> <p>This book explains how to master the key functionalities of JIRA and its customizations and add-ons, and is packed with real-world examples and use cases. You will first learn how to plan JIRA installation. Next, you will be given a brief refresher of fundamental concepts and learn about customizations in detail. Next, this book will take you through add-on development to extend JIRA functionality. Finally, this book will explore best practices and troubleshooting, to help you find out what went wrong and how to fix it.</p>
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Mastering JIRA
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching the issues


Now, you will be taken to Issue Navigator and the default view is Detail View:

In the Detail View window, a lot more information about the issue is visible, such as the issue details, issue description, assignee, reporter, and workflow buttons to transform it into another available state. You can quickly browse through the issue and view the information in the center of the screen.

The List View doesn't display too much information. The issues are displayed in the form of a table. Switch to the List View from the drop-down menu in the top-right corner, as shown in the following screenshot:

By default, a few issue fields are displayed in the List View, but you can always add more columns to your view.

So far, we have not refined the issues for a specific project. The default Basic search option will let you apply several conditions to refine the issues. You will find a set of buttons at the top of the issue list that will let you apply multiple conditions.

Let's refine the...