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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

Troubleshooting permissions


In this recipe, we will look at how to troubleshoot problems caused by permission settings such as determining why a user is unable to view an issue.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to troubleshoot permission problems in JIRA:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Administration | Permission helper.

  2. Select the affected user.

  3. Select the issue for which the user is expected to have permissions.

  4. Select the permission type the user should have access to.

  5. Click on Submit to start troubleshooting.

You can also run the Permission Helper tool from the Admin menu while viewing an issue.

How it works...

The Permission Helper tool works by looking at both the permission scheme and issue security scheme settings used by the selected issue. It verifies whether the selected user has the required permissions for the necessary action.

As shown in the following screenshot, the user Eric Lin does not have the ability to delete the issue HUM-20, because he is not in the Administrators project...