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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
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Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Delegated workflow management

Just like we have seen in Chapter 6, Screen Management, project administrators have also been empowered to make changes to workflows that are used only by their own projects, instead of having to rely entirely on the Jira administrator.

There are, however, some restrictions to this:

  • Only existing statuses can be used in the workflow
  • If the status is already used by an issue in the project, the status cannot be deleted from the workflow
  • Transition properties, conditions, validators, and post functions cannot be updated
  • The workflow must not be shared with any other projects
  • Workflows can only be updated in diagram mode

This allows you to make changes such as adjusting statuses and transition flow to workflows that are dedicated to a single project, which would normally be the case since new workflows are automatically created with each new project...