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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

Integrating JIRA with Confluence


Often, you will be using JIRA to track the progress of your engineering projects, and you will use another application to keep documentation. In this recipe, we will look at how to integrate JIRA with Confluence, another popular application from Atlassian, which is commonly used for documentation.

Getting ready

Since we will be using Confluence in this recipe, you will need to have an instance of Confluence running on your system. If you do not have one, you can download a free Confluence trial from https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence.

How to do it...

The first step is to establish the link between JIRA and Confluence:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Applications | Application links in JIRA.

  2. Enter your Confluence URL into the Application text box, and click the Create new link button. JIRA should automatically detect the target application as Confluence; if, for some reason, it does not, make sure you select Confluence as the Application type when prompted...