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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

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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

User directories

You might be wondering how and where Jira stores users and groups. User directories are what Jira uses to do this. A user directory is backed by a user repository system, such as LDAP, a database, or a remote user management system, such as Atlassian Crowd. Out of the box, Jira comes with a default internal directory that stores user and group information in the database.

You can have multiple user directories in Jira. This allows you to connect your Jira instance to multiple user repositories. For example, you can have an LDAP directory for your internal users and the Jira internal directory using the database for external users. An example is given in the following screenshot, where we have three user directories configured. The first user directory is the built-in Jira internal directory running on the Jira database. The second user directory is connected to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in read-only mode. The last user directory is connected to Atlassian Crowd...