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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Setting up customized screens for your project


JIRA comes with three screens by default: the Default Screen, the Resolve Issue Screen, and the Workflow Screen.

In this recipe, we will look at how to create a new screen from scratch, and then make it appear when we are creating a new issue of type Task.

How to do it...

The screen is one of the most complicated configurations in JIRA. To create a new screen and apply it often requires you to configure multiple schemes. So we will break these steps into three logical groups.

Firstly, we need to create our new screen:

  1. Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.

  2. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Screens.

  3. Click on the Add Screen button, and name the new screen Task Create Screen click on Add.

  4. Select and add the Summary, Issue Type, Description, Assignee, and Reporter fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

Secondly, we need to assign the new Task Create Screen to the Create Issue operation:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Screen schemes.

  2. Click...