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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

JavaScript tricks on issue fields


JIRA provides a lot of options to manage the various fields on an issue. Field configuration schemes, screen schemes, and so on, help the JIRA admins to show or hide fields, mark them as mandatory, and so on, differently for different issue types and projects.

Irrespective of how configurable these schemes are, there are still areas where we need to perform custom development. For example, if we need to show or hide fields, based on the values of another field, then JIRA doesn't have any in-built options to do so.

Then, what is the best way to deal with this? It is always possible to create a new composite custom field that can have multiple fields driven by each other's behavior. But probably an easier way—that doesn't need developing a plugin—is to drive this using JavaScript. And to make things better, JIRA offers jQuery library that can be used to write neat JavaScript code!

However, using JavaScript to handle field behavior can create problems. It limits...