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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

Creating and importing multiple users


As a JIRA administrator, it is usually your responsibility to set up accounts in JIRA for the new user whenever someone new joins the organization. This is usually fine on an ad-hoc basis, but from time to time, you might be required to import many users at once. In these cases, you will need some additional tools to help you efficiently enable all these users to access the system without any delay.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI). You can get it at  https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.jira.cli/cloud/overview.

The CLI add-on has two components. The first component is an add-on that you can install via the UPM just like any other JIRA add-ons. The second component is the actual command-line client, which we will use to execute commands against JIRA. You can download the latest command-line tool (atlassian-cli-x.x.x-distribution.zip) from https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/info/Downloads...