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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Performing additional processing after a transition is executed


JIRA allows you to perform additional tasks as part of a workflow transition through the use of post functions. JIRA makes heavy use of post functions internally, for example, in the case of an out-of-the-box workflow, the resolution field value is cleared automatically when you reopen an issue.

In this recipe, we will look at how to add post functions to a workflow transition. We will add a post function to automatically clear out the value stored in the Reason for Freezing custom field when we take it out of the Frozen status.

Getting ready

By default, JIRA comes with a post function that can change the values for standard issue fields, but since Reason for Freezing is a custom field, we need to have the JIRA Suite Utilities add-on installed.

You can download it from the following link, or install it directly using the Universal Plugin Manager:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.googlecode.jira-suite-utilities

How...