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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

Migrating from one custom field type to another


Have you been using JIRA for more than a year, or are you a power user of JIRA? That is, have you performed huge customizations, created numerous plugins, used lot of use cases, and so on? Then it is very likely that you have come across this scenario. You want to move the values from an old custom field to a new field.

JIRA doesn't have a standard way of doing this, but you can achieve this to an extent by modifying the JIRA database. However even with SQL, there are some restrictions for doing this.

The first and most important thing to check is that both the fields are compatible. You can't move the values from a text field to a number field without extra checks and validations. If there is a value such as 1234a stored in one of the issues, it can't be stored as a number field as it is not a valid number. Another example is converting a multiline text field to a single-line text field. It is not possible, as the large value in a multiline...