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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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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

Creating knowledge base articles

As your team works diligently to solve problems for your customers, nuggets of knowledge will start to accumulate over time. These include things such as common questions customers face, and the steps taken to troubleshoot them. Jira Service Management allows you to extract this information and create a knowledge base, which helps customers find solutions themselves. Out of the box, Jira Service Management only supports Atlassian Confluence for knowledge base creation, but it is possible to use other tools via third-party add-ons.

To integrate Jira Service Management with Confluence, you will have to create an application link between Jira and Confluence. If you have already done this, feel free to skip to the next section. To create an application link for Confluence, perform the following steps:

  1. Browse to the Jira administration console.
  2. Select the Applications tab and the Application links option from the left-hand panel.
  3. Click...