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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Customizing project agile boards


With JIRA Software 7, projects are run with agile methodologies, either with Scrum or Kanban. When you first create your project, you will get an agile board for your project with a very straightforward setup, containing three columns: To Do, In Progress, and Done.

In this recipe, we will look at how to customize your agile board's column layout to better integrate with your development workflow process.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to start customizing your agile board's column layout:

  1. Browse to the agile board that you want to customize. You need to be the owner of the board to do this.

  2. Select Board|Configure option from the upper-right corner of the board.

The recommended approach here is to enable and use the Simplified Workflow options, as shown in the screenshot that follows. By using this option, you can control both your workflow as well as your agile board's column layout, right here. JIRA will tell you if you have Simplified Workflow...