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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating common transitions in workflows


Configuring workflows can be a painful thing, especially when there are similar transitions used in 10 different places and they get changed every now and then. The change might be the simplest thing possible, such as editing just the name of the transition, but we still end up modifying it in 10 places.

This is where OSWorkflow's common actions come to our rescue. These are transitions that can be shared across the various statuses. The most important thing to remember here is that the target status of the common transitions will be the same, and they share the same workflow elements like triggers, conditions, validators, post functions, and even transition properties.

The default workflows in JIRA come with some common transitions. For example, the Software Simplified Workflow comes with common transitions like In Progress and Done. If you need to modify one of these transitions, you need to modify it only once and the change will be made everywhere...