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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Granting JIRA System Administrator access


In the previous recipe, we looked at how to grant access to JIRA to a normal user. In this recipe, we will look at how to grant administrative access to users. Just like granting user access, you can only grant administrator access to a group of users.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to grant a group administrator access in JIRA:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | Global permissions.

  2. Select the JIRA System Administrators option from the Permissions list, and select the group you want to grant access to, as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

There are two levels of administrator access in JIRA: JIRA Administrator and JIRA System Administrator. For the most part, they have identical functions when it comes to JIRA configurations such as custom fields and workflows. JIRA System Administrators have additional access to system-wide application configurations, such as the SMTP mail server configuration, installing add-ons...