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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

Setting up a knowledge base for your customers


As time progresses, you would start accumulating a wealth of knowledge for common problems faced by customers. It will be desirable to capture this knowledge, and make them searchable and index-able through search engines such as Google so that customers can find solutions to these common problems faster.

In this recipe, we will set up a knowledge base using the Atlassian Confluence product. By integrating with Confluence, agents of your service desk will be able to create articles to capture problem symptoms and solutions based on a set of pre-defined templates, and make them searchable in the service desk.

How to do it...

The first step is to create an Application Link between JIRA and Confluence. You can refer to the recipe Integrating JIRA with Confluence in Chapter 7, Integrations with JIRA, for detailed information. If you have already integrated JIRA and Confluence, you can skip these steps.

  1. Browse to the service desk you want to set up a...