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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

Search interface and options in Jira

As an information system, Jira comes loaded with features and options to search for data and present the search results to end users. Jira comes with three options to perform searches:

  • Quick/text search: This allows you to search for issues quickly through simple text-based search queries
  • Basic/simple search: This lets you specify issue field criteria via intuitive UI controls
  • Advanced search: This lets you construct powerful search queries with Jira’s own search language, Jira Query Language (JQL)

However, before we start looking into the details of all the search options, let’s first take a look at the main search interface that you will be using in Jira while performing your searches.

Issue navigator

The issue navigator is the primary interface through which you will be performing most of your searches in Jira. You can access it by clicking on the Issues menu in the top menu bar and then selecting the...