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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

Universal Plugin Manager

The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) is the main tool you will use to find, install, and manage apps for your Jira instance. The UPM is integrated with the Atlassian Marketplace by default, so if your Jira instance has an outbound internet connection, you will be able to search and install apps directly from the UPM.

There are two main interfaces for the UPM:

  • Find apps – This interface allows you to search for third-party apps from Atlassian Marketplace directly and install them in your Jira.
  • Manage apps – This interface allows you to manage the apps that are installed in your Jira. You can manage, disable, update, and uninstall the apps.

We will look at each of the interfaces and how you can use them to install, update, and manage third-party apps in Jira.

Searching and installing apps from the Atlassian Marketplace

If your Jira instance has an outbound internet connection and has an Atlassian Marketplace connection...