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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

Re-ordering fields in the View Issue page


It is always difficult to satisfy everyone in a big user community and that is what has happened with JIRA's view issue page. While some people love it, some think there are simple improvements possible, resulting in huge customer satisfaction.

One such thing is the layout of the view issue page. While it is neatly organised in terms of the code, the order in which they appear seems to be a strong contender for change in many cases.

For example, in the view issue page, the summary of the issue is followed by standard issue fields like Status, Priority, versions, components, and so on. It is then followed by the custom fields and then comes the description of the issue. This can sometimes be a pain, for example, in cases where description is the most important field.

Following is how the view issue page looks when you have a large custom field:

As you can see, the Test Free Text field has a huge value and the description field is not present anywhere...