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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

Controlling access to JIRA issue operations


In this recipe, we will look at permissions that control issue operations.

Getting ready

Just as we saw in the previous recipe, you can either use an existing permission scheme or create a new permission scheme. For this recipe, we will continue working with the permission scheme that we have created previously.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to set up permission schemes for issue operations:

  1. Go to the project you want to apply the project scheme to, and click on the Administration tab.

  2. Select the Permissions option on the left-hand side, and click on the Edit Permissions option from the Actions menu.

  3. Click on the Add link for the permissions you want to update, such as Create Issue and Edit Issue. Issue-related permissions are grouped under the Issue Permissions heading.

  4. Select the permission type to apply, and click on Add.

Note

You can select multiple permissions at once by holding down your Shift or Ctrl key while selecting.

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