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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 a search request view


One of the customizable features in JIRA is its Issue Navigator. It lets us search based on numerous criteria, and choose the fields that need to be shown, in a way we want to see them!

The normal or the default view in the issue navigator is the tabular view to display the issues and the fields we have chosen by configuring the issue navigator. JIRA also gives us a few other options to see the search results in different formats—to export them into Excel, Word, or XML—with the help of the predefined search request views.

In this recipe, we will see how we can add a simple HTML view in to JIRA's issue navigator. Such search views enable us to see the search results in any format we like, and the HTML view we are creating is just an example. To achieve this, we need to use the Search Request View Plugin module.

Getting ready

Create a plugin skeleton using Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

As mentioned before, we use the Search Request View Plugin module to create...