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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

Controlling access to a project


In the previous recipes, we looked at how to use global permissions to control JIRA access and administrator-level access. In this recipe, we will look at how to control project-level permissions, starting with access to projects.

Getting ready

To control project-level access, we use permission schemes. JIRA comes with a Default Permission Scheme, which is applied automatically to all projects. You can use this scheme and update its permission settings directly. For this recipe, we will start with creating a new permission scheme to illustrate how to create a new scheme from scratch. If you want to just use the default scheme, you can skip the first three steps.

How to do it...

We first need to create a new permission scheme, which can be done through the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Permission schemes.

  2. Click on the Add Permission Scheme button.

  3. Enter the new scheme's name, and click on Add.

  4. With the permission scheme created, we then need...