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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

Creating global transitions in workflows


We have seen how to configure common transitions in the previous recipe. Global transitions in workflows are a similar useful feature. A global transition is a transition in which the destination step has all other steps in the workflow as incoming steps. That is, this transition will act as a transition from all steps to the destination step chosen in this transition, and you need to only modify in a single place if there is any change.

Creating a global transition is fairly easy using the workflow designer, and it is only supported in the diagram mode.

How to do it...

Let us take the example of Reject that we saw in the earlier recipe. What if we want to reject an issue from every single state in the workflow? In that case, it doesn't make sense to create common transitions as we will have to repeat those steps for every source status in the workflow.

Instead, we can create a single global transition to the Rejected status, as explained here:

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