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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

Dynamic creation of web items


We have now seen quite a few recipes on how to create web items and place them at different places in the UI. But in each case, we knew what links were needed. How about creating these links on the fly?

In this recipe, we will see how to create web items dynamically.

Getting ready

Create a new web item, Favourites, in the system top navigation bar, as discussed in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Let us assume we want to create some links in the system top navigation bar. We have seen the same thing in the previous recipe, but that works only when we know the links in advance. Let us consider a new scenario where the user sees different sets of links when he/she is logged in and not logged in! We can use conditions to check user status, but let us use dynamic link creation for the sake of this recipe.

The following is a step-by-step process to do the same:

  1. Create the Favourites web section in the system top navigation bar.

            <web-item key="favourites-menu...