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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

JavaScript tricks on issue fields


JIRA provides a lot of options to manage the various fields on an issue. Field configuration schemes, screen schemes, and so on, help the JIRA admins to show or hide fields, mark them as mandatory, and so on, differently for different issue types and projects.

Irrespective of how configurable these schemes are, there are still areas where we need to perform custom development. For example, if we need to show or hide fields, based on the values of another field, then JIRA doesn't have any in-built options to do so.

Then what is the best way to deal with this? It is always possible to create a new composite custom field that can have multiple fields driven by each other's behavior. But probably an easier way-that doesn't require developing a plugin-is to drive this using JavaScript. And to make things better, JIRA offers jQuery library, that can be used to write neat JavaScript code!

However, using JavaScript to handle field behavior can create problems. It limits...