JIRA Development Cookbook

Develop and customize plugins, program workflows, work on custom fields, master JQL functions, and more to effectively customize, manage, and extend JIRA

Key Features

• Extend and Customize JIRA--Work with custom fields, workflows, Reports & Gadgets, JQL functions, plugins, and more
• Customize the look and feel of your JIRA User Interface by adding new tabs, web items and sections, drop down menus, and more
• Master JQL - JIRA Query Language that enables advanced searching capabilities through which users can search for issues in their JIRA instance and then exploit all the capabilities of issue navigator
• Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create and deploy your own JIRA plugins
• Deal with Custom Fields on an Issue and program Custom Field Options
• Program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system
• Create reports that show statistics for particular people, projects, versions, or other fields within issues
• Simplify reporting by writing your own JIRA Gadgets, which can be added into a user s dashboard
• Create, edit, and delete Issues
• Master Database handling in JIRA --retrieve Issue information from Database, extend the database, retrieve Custom Field details from the database, access database entities from plugins, and more
• Communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces

Who this book is for

If you are a JIRA developer or project manager who wants to fully exploit the exciting capabilities of JIRA, then this is the perfect book for you.