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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

Restricting access to projects based on reporter permissions


As we have seen in one of the previous recipes, the Browse Projects permission controls who can access a project in JIRA. In this recipe, we will set up permissions so that users can only see projects they can create issues in, and not the projects in which they cannot.

Getting ready

Since we will be making direct changes to a JIRA system file, make sure you create backups for any modified files. This recipe will also require a restart of JIRA, so plan this during a time slot that will not affect your users.

How to do it...

To restrict access to projects based on who can or cannot report criterion, you first need to enable a special permission type as follows:

  1. Open the permission-types.xml file from the JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes directory in a text editor.

  2. Locate the following lines, and uncomment the reportercreate permission type as follows:

            <!-- Uncomment & use this permission to show only projects...