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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

Running scripts in JIRA


JIRA provides an add-on framework for people with programming skills to create add-ons to extend its features, or to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible or tedious. However, even with that, it is sometimes an overkill to create a full-blown add-on for what may seem like a simple task. The good news is that there is an option for you to write or program scripts that can take advantage of what the API offers while not having the burden of a full add-on development.

In this recipe, we will create a Groovy script that will share a number of search filters by adding them as favorites for everyone in JIRA—a task that would otherwise take a lot of time if done manually.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need to have the Script Runner add-on installed. You can download it from the following link and install it with the UPM:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to run a custom Groovy...