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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 new tabs in the Browse Project screen


In this recipe, we will see how to add a new tab in the BrowseProject screen using the project-tabpanel module.

Note

The use of this module is deprecated in JIRA 7 but we still have it in the book for the sake of plugins in older versions or to help plugin migrations to JIRA7.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

Following are the steps required to create a new project tab panel:

  1. Define the Project Tab Panel in the atlassian-plugin.xml:

            <project-tabpanel key="jtricks-project-panel" 
            i18n-name-key="projectpanels.jtricks.name" 
            name="Project Tab Panel" 
            class="com.jtricks.ui.tabs.JTricksProjectTabPanel">
                <description>A sample Project Tab Panel</description>
                <label>JTricks Panel</label>
                <order>900</order>
                <resource type="velocity" 
              ...