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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

Introduction


JIRA is known for its search capabilities. It also allows us to extend these capabilities in a way that impresses its users! In this chapter, we will look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA, such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on.

JQL, JIRA Query Language, brings to the table advanced searching capabilities. The users can search for issues in their JIRA instance and then exploit all the capabilities of the issue navigator.

While JIRA has a Simple or Basic Searching that can be used for most searching requirements, JQL, or Advanced Searching, introduces support for logical operations, including AND, OR, NOT, NULL, and EMPTY. It also introduces a set of JQL functions, which can be used effectively to search based on predefined criteria.

JQL is a structured query language that lets us find issues using a simple SQL-like syntax. It is simple because of its auto-complete features, and it is powerful because of the custom JQL functions. As Atlassian...