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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

Adding a new drop-down menu on the top navigation bar


In this recipe, we will show how to use the web section and web item modules quickly to add a new drop-down menu in JIRA's top navigation bar.

How to do it...

Here, we first need a webitem to be placed in the system's top navigation bar and then have a websection declared under it. The web section can then have a list of web items created under it that will then form the links on the drop-down menu.

Following are the steps to do it:

  1. Create a new web item under the system's top navigation bar:

            <web-item key="jtricks-menu" name="JTricks Menu" 
            section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="150">
               <description>J Tricks Web site</description>
               <label>J Tricks</label>
               <tooltip>J Tricks Web site</tooltip>
               <link linkId="jtricks-menu">http://www.j-tricks.com</link>
            </web-item>

    As you can see, the section...