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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira enables effective bug tracking for your software and mobile applications and provides tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. Jira Essentials is a comprehensive guide, now updated to Jira 8 to include enhanced features such as updates to Scrum and Kanban UI, additional search capabilities, and changes to Jira Service Desk. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new Jira 8 instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, business processes, and much more. You'll then understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book delves into the different issues that can arise in your projects. You’ll explore fields, including custom fields, and learn to use them for more effective data collection. You’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. The book also covers workflows and business processes, and guides you in setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers. Toward the end, you’ll study Jira's security model and Jira Service Desk, which allows you to run Jira as a support portal. By the end of this Jira book, you will be able to implement Jira 8 in your projects with ease.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8
5
Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
11
Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Jira and email

Emails have become one of the most ubiquitous communication tools in today's world. Businesses and individuals rely on emails to send and receive information around the world almost instantly. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Jira is fully equipped and integrated with email support.

Jira's email support comes in several flavors. First, Jira sends emails to users about changes that have been made to their issues, such as adding comments, so people working on the same issue can be kept on the same page. Second, Jira can also poll mailboxes for emails and create issues and comments based on the content of the email. The last feature is the ability for users to create and subscribe to filters to set up feeds in Jira (we will discuss filters in Chapter 10, Searching, Reporting, and Analysis). These features open up a whole new dimension on how...