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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

Adding new issue operations


In this recipe, we will look at adding new operations to an issue. The existing issue operations include Edit Issue, Clone Issue, and so on, and most of the time, people tend to look for similar operations with variations or entirely new operations that they can perform on an issue.

Prior to JIRA 4.1, the issue operations were added using the Issue Operations Plugin Module (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Issue+Operations+Plugin+Module). But since JIRA 4.1, new issue operations are added using Web Item Plugin Module (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Item+Plugin+Module).

A Web Item Plugin module is a generic module that is used to define links in various application menus. One such menu is the issue operations menu. We will see more about the web items module and how it can be used to enhance the UI, later in this book; so, in this recipe, we will only concentrate on using the web-item module to create issue operations.

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