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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

Learn how to hide a specific issue from the user within a project


Currently, only the users who are part of the jira-testers group can access to Project For Test Management. The user may be part of other groups (such as jira-developers and jira-users), but they must be part of jira-testers to be able to view this project.

Imagine a scenario when there is a need to hide certain issues from all users who are not part of the jira-developers group. This is just an example that we will implement here, but in reality, there could indeed be such cases. This can be achieved by creating an Issue Security Scheme.

  1. Go to Administration | Issue Security Schemes and click on the Add Issue Security Scheme at the bottom. In the following screenshot, enter the Name and Description:

  2. Click on the Add button to continue:

  3. Under Operations, click on the Security Levels link:

  4. Enter the Name and Description of the security level and click on the Add Security Level button. Once created, click on the Add link under Operations...