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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

Creating custom workflow transition logic


In previous recipes, we have looked at using workflow conditions, validators, and post functions that come out of the box with JIRA and from other third-party add-ons.

In this recipe, we will take a look at how to use scripts to define our own validation rules for a workflow validator. We will address a common-use case, which is to make a field required during a workflow transition only when another field is set to a certain value.

So, our validation logic will be as follows:

  • If the Resolution field is set to Fixed, the Solution Details field will be

  • If the Resolution field is set to a value other than Fixed, the Solution Details field will not be

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need to have the Script Runner 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.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner

You might also want to get familiar with Groovy...