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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

Understanding custom fields

One of the key features of Jira is custom fields, which let you add new fields to the system based on your needs. You can add a new user picker field to represent project stakeholders or a date picker field for different key dates.

Every custom field is of a certain type that dictates its behavior, appearance, and functionality. Therefore, when you add a custom field to Jira, you are adding a custom field of the selected custom field type.

Jira comes with over 20 custom field types that you can use straight out of the box. Many custom field types are identical to the built-in fields, such as Date Picker, which is like the Due Date field. They provide you with simplicity and flexibility that are not available with their built-in counterparts. The upcoming sections break down and list all the standard and advanced Jira custom field types and their characteristics.

Standard fields

These field types are the most basic field types in Jira. They are...