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JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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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

Chapter 6.  Screen Management

Fields collect data from users, and you have seen how to create your own custom fields from a wide range of field types to address your different requirements. Indeed, data collection is at the center of any information system, but that is only half of the story. How data is captured is just as critical. Data input forms need to be organized so that users do not feel overwhelmed, and the general flow of fields needs to be logically structured and grouped into sections. This is where screens come in.

In this chapter, we will pick up where we left off in the last chapter and explore the relationship between fields and screens. We will further discuss how you can use screens to customize your JIRA to provide users with a better user experience. By the end of the chapter, you will learn the following:

  • What screens are and how to create them

  • How to add fields onto screens

  • How to break down your screen into logical sections with tabs

  • The relationship between screens...