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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

Managing shared filters and dashboards


JIRA allows end users to create their own search filters and dashboards and share them with other users. When the owner of the shared filters and dashboards leaves the organization or goes on leave, others will not be able to make changes to them. In these cases, as the JIRA administrator, you can temporarily (or permanently) change the owner of the shared filter and dashboard to a new user.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to reassign a shared filter or dashboard to another user:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | Shared filters (or dashboards).

  2. Search for the shared filter.

  3. Select the Change Owner option for the filter.

  4. Enter a new owner for the filter, for example, yourself, and click on the Change Owner button.

There's more...

Normally, you will only need to change the owner of shared filters or dashboards, as other users use those. However, in rare cases where you need to change the owner of a non-shared filters or dashboards, you can first...