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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 links in the Project-centric view


As you saw in the previous recipe, the project-tabpanel module is deprecated and the panels created using the same are now grouped under the Add-ons section.

In JIRA7 and higher, items can be directly added into the project-centric view using the web-item module. We have already seen the web item module earlier in this chapter. We just need to create a web item with the appropriate section in the plugin module definition.

In this recipe, we will see how to add a simple link to the project-centric navigation.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

As mentioned earlier, we just need to define a web-item module with the appropriate section and link defined in it.

For the project-centric navigation, the section is jira.project.sidebar.plugins.navigation.

The web-item module is defined as follows:

<web-item key="jtricks-projectcentric-link" 
i18n-name-key="projectcentriclink.jtricks.name" 
section...