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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8
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Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
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Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Setting up a workflow in Jira Service Desk

Just as with fields, you can also control how workflow statuses are displayed in Jira Service Desk. Note that you cannot actually change the actual workflow, but you can make the workflow less confusing to your customers, so they know exactly how their requests are progressing.

To set up the workflow for a request type, perform the following steps:

  1. Browse to the project administration page for the service desk you want to set up a workflow for.
  2. Select the Request Types option from the left-hand panel.
  1. Click on the Edit fields link for the request type you want to set up a workflow for.
  2. Select the Workflow Statuses tab. This will list all the workflow statuses that are available in the workflow, as shown in the following screenshot:

As we can see in the preceding screenshot, the actual Jira workflow status names are listed in the...