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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
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Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
11
Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Manually sending emails

Sometimes, you, as the administrator, may need to send out emails containing important messages to a wide audience. For example, if you are planning some maintenance work that will take Jira offline for an extended period of time, you may want to send an email to all Jira users to let them know of the outage.

Jira has a built-in facility where you can manually send out emails to specific groups of users. There are two options when manually sending emails—you can send them groups or by projects.

When sending by groups, all you have to do is select one or more groups in Jira, and all users that belong to the selected groups will receive the email. Users belonging to more than one group will not get duplicated emails.

When sending emails by projects, you have to first select one or more projects and then the project roles. We will discuss project roles...