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JIRA Essentials

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA Essentials

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Essentials Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Help Desk project


Armed with the new knowledge that you gathered in this chapter, together with fields from the previous chapter, it is time for you to further customize your JIRA to provide a better user experience through presentation.

What we will do this time is create new screens and apply them to our Help Desk project. We want to separate the generic fields from our specialized custom fields designed for escalation. We also want to, at this time, apply the changes to the issues of the Incident type only and not affect the other issue types. As with any changes to be done on a production system, it is critical that you have a backup of your current data before applying changes.

Setting up screens

In Chapter 4, Field Management, you created a few custom fields specifically designed for our support teams. As you learned, those fields are added to the default screen. The first thing you need to do is to create a couple of screens for your Help Desk project only, to avoid affecting any...