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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

Customizing Jira with scripts

The apps we have looked at so far are all prepackaged, purpose-built solutions that are designed to provide specific functions. These are great as they provide solutions for common problems people would have or features that everyone needs.

However, sometimes you have requirements that are not covered by any apps that are available on the Atlassian Marketplace. Now you can create a custom app for that, but often you simply need a custom field that captures or displays data in a specific way, or a workflow validator that has some specialized business logic. In these cases, you can use an app called ScriptRunner.

ScriptRunner is an app that brings scripting capabilities into Jira. If you know how to write Groovy scripts, ScriptRunner will let you create custom fields, workflow components such as validators, and post functions defined by your own Groovy scripts. This way, you can implement these components with your own business logic, without having...