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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

Deactivating a user


Once a user has created an issue or comment, JIRA will not allow you to delete the user. In fact, deactivating a user is usually a better approach than deleting the user completely. Once the user is deactivated, the user cannot log in to JIRA, and this will not count towards your license count.

Note

You cannot deactivate a user when you are using external user management systems such as LDAP or Crowd from JIRA. You need to do so from the user management system of the source.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to deactivate a user:

  1. Navigate to Administration | User management | Users.

  2. Click on the Edit link for the user to deactivate.

  3. Uncheck the Active option.

  4. Click on the Update button to deactivate the user.

Deactivated users will not be able to log in to JIRA, and will have the (Inactive) option displayed next to their name.