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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

Enabling public user signup


In the previous recipe, we looked at how to manually create new user accounts, and importing users from a CSV file. These are the two options that the JIRA administrators have when your JIRA instance is used internally.

However, if your JIRA is set up to be used by the public, such as in a support system, you would want to let your customers to freely sign up for a new account, rather than having them wait for the administrator to manually create each account.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to enable a public user signup:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | General Configuration.

  2. Click on the Edit Settings button.

  3. Set the Mode option to Public Signup, and click on Update.

How it works...

JIRA can operate in two modes, public and private. In the private mode, only the administrator can create new user accounts. For example, you can use the private mode for JIRA instances that are used by internal engineering teams to track their projects, as shown in...