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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

Field Management

Projects are collections of issues, and issues are collections of fields. As we have seen in the earlier chapters, fields capture data, which can then be displayed to users. There are many different types of field in Jira, ranging from simple text fields that let you input alphanumeric text, to more complicated fields with pickers to assist you with choosing dates and users.

An information system is only as useful as the data that goes into it. By understanding how to effectively use fields, you can turn Jira into a powerful information system for data collection, processing, and reporting.

In this chapter, we will expand our HR project with these customized fields and configurations, by exploring fields in detail and learning how they relate to other aspects of Jira. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned the following:

  • Using system and custom fields...