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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Customizing e-mail content


We have already seen how JIRA throws various events when something happens and how we can handle these events to do various things. One example includes sending e-mail notifications to users based on the notification schemes that are set up in JIRA. But what if we don't like the default content of JIRA notifications? What if we just want a different wording or maybe even need to amend the e-mail content?

In this recipe, we will see how we can customize e-mail content that is sent as a notification when an event is thrown in JIRA.

How to do it...

JIRA has a set of e-mail templates written using velocity and rendered when a notification is sent. For each event, a template is configured within JIRA and that template is used when the event is thrown. We can either create new templates and edit the events to use these new templates or modify the existing templates and leave the events as they are!

In both cases, the steps are pretty similar and are as follows:

  1. Identify the...