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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

Switching user sessions in JIRA


You will often have problems where the issue only happens to a particular user. In these cases, you will have to either sit next to the user in order to see and understand the problem, or reset the user's password, and log in as that user.

In this recipe, we will look at how you can switch your current session to any other user's session without having to reset or getting hold of the user's password.

Getting ready

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

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.jira.plugins.schizophrenia

How to do it...

We first need to configure the add-on using the following steps:

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

  2. Select the User Switcher for JIRA add-on, and click on the Configure button.

  3. Enter the group that should be able to switch users. Leave it blank for the groups with the JIRA System Administrator global...