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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

Allowing users to control permissions


When you have a mixed group of users, such as internal employees and outside consultants, working on the same JIRA project, there will be issues with sensitive information that should only be viewed by internal employees. In these cases, you would want to mark those issues as internal only so that other people cannot see them.

In this recipe, we will look at how to set up permissions to control access at the issue level with issue security schemes.

How to do it...

The steps for setting up issue-level permissions are as follows:

  1. Since JIRA does not come with any default issue security schemes, the first step is to create a new one from scratch:

    1. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Issue security schemes.

    2. Click on the Add Issue Security Scheme button.

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

  2. The second step is to set up the security levels that you can choose from such as Internal Users Only:

    1. Click on the Security Levels link for our new issue security scheme...