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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

Rearranging the workflow transition bar


By default, workflow transitions are displayed based on the order in which they are defined in the workflow (as listed in the Text mode)-the first two transitions will be shown as buttons, and the remaining transitions will be added to the Workflow menu.

This sequence is determined by the order in which the transitions are added, so you cannot change that. But you can rearrange them by using the opsbar-sequence property.

In this recipe, we will move the Frozen transition out from the Workflow menu and to its own transition button so that the users can easily access it.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to rearrange the order of transitions to be displayed in the issue transition bar:

  1. Select and edit the workflow to configure.

  2. Select the Frozen global transition.

  3. Click on the View Properties button.

  4. Enter opsbar-sequence for Property Name and the value 30 in Property Value and click on Add.

  5. Click on Publish Draft to apply the change.

As shown in the...