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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

Integrating JIRA with other JIRA instances


If you have multiple JIRA instances in your organization, it is sometimes useful to integrate them together, especially when teams from different projects need to collaborate and work together. In this recipe, we will integrate two JIRA instances together so that we can link issues across systems.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to link two JIRA instances together:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Applications | Application links.

  2. Enter the other JIRA's URL and create the application link. JIRA should automatically detect the target application as JIRA. If, for some reason, it does not, make sure you select JIRA as the Application type when prompted.

How it works...

Once you have integrated two JIRA instances together with an application link, you will be able to search for, and link issues from, the remote JIRA instance to issues in the local JIRA instance. As shown in the following screenshot, when you use the link feature, JIRA will prompt...