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JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook

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JIRA 5.x 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" is a one stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" 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, and so on, and a lot of planning done for the project, 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" steers towards programming issues, such as creating, editing, and deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs, and so on. In the latter half of "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook", 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 5.x Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding new web items in the UI


A web item is a new link that can be added at various places in the JIRA UI. The link will typically go under a web section. It can simply point to a URL or can be used to invoke an action. In this recipe, we will see how to add a new web item to JIRA.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to add a new web item into JIRA:

  1. Identify the web section where the new link should be added. We have already learned how to create a new web section. A link is then added into a section created as mentioned previously or into a predefined JIRA section. We can add the link directly to a location if it is a non-sectioned one. For sectioned locations, it is the location key, followed by a slash (/), and the key value of the web section in which it should appear.

    For example, if we want to place a link in the web section previously created, the section element will have the value admin_plugins_menu/jtricks-admin-section.

  2. Add the new web-item module into the atlassian-plugin...