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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Including/excluding resolutions for specific transitions


If you haven't noticed already, resolutions in JIRA are global. If you have a resolution Resolved, it appears whenever the resolution field is added on a transition screen. This might not make sense in some cases. For example, it doesn't make sense to add the resolution Resolved when you are rejecting an issue.

Let us see how we can pick and choose resolutions based on workflow transitions.

How to do it...

We can include/exclude specific resolutions on workflow transitions using the jira.field.resolution.include and jira.field.resolution.exclude properties. The following is the step-by-step procedure:

  1. Login as a JIRA Administrator

  2. Navigate to Administration | Global Settings | Workflows.

  3. Create a draft of the workflow, if it is active. Navigate to the transition which needs to be modified.

  4. Click on the View properties of this transition link.

  5. Enter jira.field.resolution.include or jira.field.resolution.exclude into the Property Key field...