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JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Atlassian JIRA is an enterprise-issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization, ranging from building Atlassian application interfaces to providing a platform for add-ons to extend JIRA's capabilities. JIRA 7 Essentials, now in its fourth edition, provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components of JIRA 7, which includes JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and JIRA Service Works. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new JIRA 7 instance from scratch for production use before moving on to the more key features such as e-mails, workflows, business processes, and so on. Then you will understand JIRA's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects in JIRA. Issues being the corner stone of using JIRA, you will gain a deep understanding of issues and their purpose. Then you will be introduced to fields and how to use custom fields for more effective data collections. You will then learn to create new screens from scratch and customize it to suit your needs. The book then covers workflows and business processes, and you will also be able to set up both incoming and outgoing mail servers to work with e-mails. Towards the end, we explain JIRA's security model and introduce you to one of JIRA’s new add-ons: JIRA Service Desk, which allows you to run JIRA as a computer support portal.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The HR project


Now that we have seen all the key aspects that make up a project, let's revisit what you learned so far and put it to practice. In this exercise, we will set up a project for our Human Resource (HR) team to better track and manage employees joining and leaving the company as well as tasks related to the recruitment process.

Creating a new project

We will first start by creating a new project for the HR team. To create the project, perform the following steps:

  1. Bring up the Create project dialog by selecting the Create project option from the Projects drop-down menu.

  2. Select the Task management project template. We can use other templates in the Business project type; the task management template is the simplest option and will make future customization easier.

  3. Name our new project as Human Resource and accept the other default values for Key and Project Lead.

  4. Click on the Submit button to create the new project.

You should now be taken to the project browser interface for the new project...