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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 conditions for web fragments


As we saw in the previous recipes, adding a web fragment is pretty easy. However, the job doesn't always end there. In many cases, we would want to limit the web item based on a set of conditions.

For example, an Edit link on an issue should only appear for people with edit permission on an issue. The Administration link should appear only if the user is a JIRA administrator. In this recipe, let us look at how we can implement conditions for displaying web fragments.

How to do it...

It is possible to add one or more conditions to a web section or web item. In the latter case, the conditions element is used, which is a collection of condition/conditions elements and a type attribute. The type attribute is either the logical AND or OR.

For example, the following condition specifies that the user should have either the admin permission or use permission in a project before he/she can see the web fragment that has the condition on it.

<conditions type="OR"&gt...