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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

5 (1)
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

Extending Jira with apps

Now that we have seen how to find and install third-party apps, we will look at some of the common use cases where you can extend Jira’s core features with apps. In this section, we will make use of some of the popular apps available on the Atlassian Marketplace to illustrate how you can use apps to extend Jira.

Extending custom fields with apps

In Chapter 5, Field Management, we introduced custom fields and looked at the out-of-the-box field types Jira provides. With third-party apps, we can extend the list of options even further. So far, most fields we have seen so far are primarily used to capture and display data, but custom fields can do far more than that. In this section, we will be looking at the Electronic Signature for Jira app.

As the name suggests, the Electronic Signature for Jira app allows users to capture electronic signatures when changes are made to issues, usually as part of a workflow transition. This is especially useful...