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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

Project permissions

The next level of permission control is project permissions. Jira defines a list of permissions that covers the different operations a user can perform within the context of a project, such as creating new issues and adding comments to issues. Unlike application access and global permissions, which only allow you to use groups, project permissions have a lot more options when it comes to determining who to grant permissions to. A list of project permissions is set out here:

  • Application access: This is for any user that has been granted access to the application
  • Reporter: This is the user who submitted the issue
  • Group: These are all users that belong to the specified group
  • Single user: This is any user in Jira
  • Project lead: This is the lead of the project
  • Current assignee: This is the user currently assigned to the issue
  • Project role: These are all users that belong to the specified role
  • User custom field value: This user is specified...