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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

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

Associating an issue type screen scheme with a project

The final piece of the puzzle to put your screens to use is to associate the issue type screen scheme with the project you want to use. Perform the following steps to associate your new issue type screen scheme:

  1. Browse to the target project’s administration page.
  2. Click on the Screens option from the left panel.
  3. Select the Use a different scheme option from the Actions menu:

Figure 6.10 – Associate an issue type screen scheme to a project

  1. Select the issue type screen scheme from the Scheme select list.
  2. Click on the Associate button.

Once you associate the issue type screen scheme with the project, Jira will show you the details of the mapping, as shown in the preceding screenshot.