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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

Running JIRA in safe mode


When you have different people installing add-ons in JIRA, you can, at times, run into problems, but you might be unsure as to which add-on has caused a certain problem. In these cases, you can use the method of elimination; however, you should first disable all the add-ons, and re-enable them one at a time.

Getting ready

Enabling safe mode will impact your users, so make sure you plan accordingly before doing so.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to enable safe mode:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Add-ons | Manage add-ons.

  2. Click on the Enter safe mode link at the bottom of the page.

  3. Click on Enter safe mode when you are prompted to confirm the operation.

The window looks like the following screenshot:

How it works...

The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) is what JIRA uses to manage all its add-ons. Other than being the interface that allows you to upload and install third-party add-ons (unless instructed otherwise), it also provides a number of other useful administrative...