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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

Issue type screen scheme

Screen schemes group screens together and create associations with issue operations. The next piece of the puzzle is to tell Jira to use our screen schemes when creating, viewing, and editing specific types of issues.

We do not directly associate screen schemes to Jira. The reason for this is that Jira has the flexibility to allow you to define this on a per-issue type level. What this means is that, instead of forcing all issue types in a given project to use the same screen scheme, you can actually use different screen schemes for different issue types. This extremely flexible and powerful feature is provided through the Issue Type Screen Scheme.

Just like screens and screen schemes, you need to be a Jira administrator to create and manage issue type screen schemes. Perform the following steps to manage issue type screen schemes:

  1. Browse to the Jira...