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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

Re-ordering fields in the View Issue page


It is always difficult to satisfy everyone in a big user community and so it proves with the JIRA's View Issue page. While some people love it, some think there are simple improvements possible that would result in huge customer satisfaction.

One such area is the layout of the View Issue page. While it is neatly organized in terms of the code, the order in which they appear seems to be a strong contender for change in many cases.

For example, in the View Issue page, the summary of the issue is followed by standard issue fields like Status, Priority, versions, Component/s, and so on. It is then followed by the custom fields and then comes the description of the issue. This can sometimes be a pain, for example, in cases where description is the most important field.

The View Issue page looks as follows when you have a large custom field:

As you can see, the Unlimited Text Field field has a huge value and the Description field is way down on the screen...