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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

Incoming emails

We have seen how to configure Jira to send emails to notify users about updates on their issues. However, this is only half of the story when it comes to Jira’s email support.

You can also set up Jira so that it periodically polls mailboxes for emails and creates issues based on the emails’ subject and content. This is a very powerful feature with the following benefits:

  • It hides the complexity of Jira from business users so that they can log issues more efficiently and leave the complexity to the IT team.
  • It allows users to create issues, even if Jira can only be accessed within the internal network. Users can send emails to a dedicated mailbox for Jira to poll.

In this section, we will look at how to add incoming mail servers for Jira to poll emails, and then create mail handlers to create issues and/or comments from the emails.

Adding an incoming mail server

For Jira to retrieve emails and create issues from them, you need...