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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 field searchers

For any information system, capturing data is only half of the equation. Users will need to be able to retrieve the data at a later stage, usually through searching, and Jira is no different. While fields in Jira are responsible for capturing and displaying data, it is their corresponding searchers that provide the search functionality.

A custom field searcher determines how the data stored by the field will be indexed, and this will have an impact on how you can search its data. For example, a text custom field will index its data as raw text so you can run a fuzzy search such as the text starting with a particular character. A select list custom field, on the other hand, will index its data differently, so you can run searches against a particular option value or a list of option values. If a field does not have a searcher applied, then its data will not be indexed, and you will not be able to search its data.

All fields that come with Jira have...