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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making an issue editable/non-editable based on workflow status


We know that the edit permission on an issue is controlled through the Edit Issue Permission. This is used within the permissions schemes tied to a project and it blocks/allows editing of the issue, irrespective of which status it is in! But many a times the need arises to block an issue being edited at a specific status. An example would be to prevent editing on a closed issue.

We will have a quick look at how to achieve this using workflow properties.

How to do it...

We can make an issue editable or non-editable using the jira.issue.editable workflow property. The following is the step-by-step procedure:

  1. Login as a JIRA Administrator.

  2. Navigate to Administration | Global Settings | Workflows.

  3. Create a draft of the workflow, if it is active. Navigate to the step which needs to be modified.

  4. Click on the View step's properties link.

  5. Enter jira.issue.editable into the Property Key field.

  6. Enter false in the Property Value field, if you want...