Practical JIRA plugins Cover title. - "Using JIRA effectively: custom development"--Cover

One advantage of using Jira for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the Jira community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of __Practical Jira Administration__—shows you how to create and maintain your own Jira plugins to meet the specific needs of a project. This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of Jira plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available.* Use Jira’s Plugin Sdk, and learn several aspects common to all plugins * Create your own custom field type, using a Jira plugin * Delve into advanced aspects of custom field plugins, and discover how searching for values in custom fields works * Create Jira plugins to use with workflows, and learn about conditions, validators, and post-functions * Store data using the PropertySet interface and the Active Objects plugin * Upgrade a plugin and upload it to Atlassian Plugin Exchange (Pac) One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of JIRA plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available.Use JIRA’s Plugin SDK, and learn several aspects common to all pluginsCreate your own custom field type, using a JIRA pluginDelve into advanced aspects of custom field plugins, and discover how searching for values in custom fields worksCreate JIRA plugins to use with workflows, and learn about conditions, validators, and post-functionsStore data using the PropertySet interface and the Active Objects pluginUpgrade a plugin and upload it to Atlassian Plugin Exchange (PAC) One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doarthe author of Practical JIRA Administration shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project. This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of JIRA plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. If you use JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management, you may be familiar with the many plugins available for extending it. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration —shows you how to create and maintain JIRA plugins to meet a project's specific needs. It's an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available. COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Java JIRA is widely used as a product and bug tracking system, particularly in the Java world, but also in many other environment. However, it's a large open source project, for which setup and management can be tricky. This book shows you how to develop plugins that extend JIRA's functionality.