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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

Capturing additional information during workflow transitions


When users execute a workflow transition, we have an option to display an intermediate workflow screen. This is a very useful way of collecting some additional information from the user. For example, the default JIRA workflow will display a screen for users to select the Resolution value when the issue is resolved.

Note

Issues with resolution values are considered completed. You should only add the Resolution field to workflow screens that represent the closing of an issue.

Getting ready

We need to have a workflow to configure, such as the Simple Workflow that was created in the previous recipe. We also need to have screens to display; JIRA's out-of-the-box Workflow Screen and Result Issue Screen will suffice, but if you have created your own screens, they can also be used.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to add a screen to a workflow transition:

  1. Select the workflow to update, such as our Simple Workflow.

  2. Click on the Edit...