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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

Customizing the look and feel of your support portal


JIRA Service Desk has two main interfaces, one for the customers raising requests, and one for agents providing solutions. In this recipe, we will look at how to customize the service desk portal, which is the front facing user interface used by your customers.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to troubleshoot notification problems in JIRA:

  1. Browse to the service desk to customize.

  2. Click on the Project administration option on the lower-left corner of the screen.

  3. Select the Portal settings option from the panel on the left-hand side.

From here, you can configure a range of customizations on how the service desk portal will look like when a customer visits it. You can add logos, and announcement messages. With the announcement message, you can use a wiki markup, so you will be able to use styles such as bold and italic as well as create hyperlinks. For example, the following announcement message uses some of these markups:

Welcome to...