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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

This new and improved sixth edition comes with the latest Jira 8.21 Data Center offerings, with enhanced features such as clustering, advanced roadmaps, custom field optimization, and tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. This comprehensive guide to Jira 8.20.x LTS version provides updated content on project tracking, issue and field management, workflows, Jira Service Management, and security. The book begins by showing you how to plan and set up a new Jira instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, and business processes. You’ll also get to grips with Jira’s data hierarchy and design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book will help you understand the different issues that can arise in your projects. As you advance, you’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. Workflows, business processes, and guides on setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers will be covered alongside Jira’s security model and Jira Service Management. Toward the end, you’ll learn how Jira capabilities are extended with third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have understood core components and functionalities of Jira and be able to implement them in business projects with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Jira
4
Part 2: Jira in Action
9
Part 3: Advanced Jira

Events

Jira is an event-driven system. This means that when an action occurs (for example, when an issue is created), Jira will fire off a corresponding event. This event is then picked up by components that are designed to listen to the event. These are called listeners. When a listener picks up an event, it will perform its duty, such as keeping issues up to date with changes or sending an email to users who are watching the issue.

This mechanism allows Jira to process operations asynchronously. The advantage of this model is operations, such as sending emails, are separated from Jira’s core functions, such as issue creation. If there is a problem with the mail server, for example, you will not want this problem to prevent your users from creating issues.

There are two types of events in Jira:

  • System events: These are internal events that are used by Jira, and they usually represent the main functionalities in Jira. They cannot be added, edited, or deleted.
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