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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

Managing custom fields

Custom fields are used globally across Jira, so you will need to have the Jira Administrator global permission to carry out management operations such as creation and configuration.

Jira maintains all the custom fields in a centralized location for easy management. Perform the following steps to access the custom field management page:

  1. Log in as a Jira administrator user.
  2. Browse to the Jira administration console.
  3. Select the Issues tab and then the Custom fields option:

On the Custom fields page, all the existing custom fields will be listed. From here, you can see the names of all custom fields, their type, the context they belong to, and the screens they are displayed on. Note that some custom fields, such as Development and Epic Color, as shown in the previous screenshot, come with Jira itself, and will have the LOCKED label next to their names. These...