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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

Adding new web sections in the UI


A web fragment is a link or a section of links in a particular location of the JIRA web interface. It can be a menu in JIRA's top navigation bar, a new set of issue operations, or a new section in the AdminUI section.

There are two types of plugin modules used to add new web fragments in JIRA, namely, the WebSection plugin module and the WebItem plugin module. A WebSection is a collection of links that is displayed together in a particular location of the JIRA user interface. It may be a group of buttons on the issue operations bar or a set of links separated by lines.

In this recipe, we will see how to add a new web section to JIRA.

How to do it...

Following are the steps required to add a new web section to JIRA:

  1. Identify the location where the new sections should be added.

    Note

    JIRA has a lot of identified locations in its user interface and it lets us add new web sections in any of these locations. A complete list of the available locations can be found at...