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Jira 8 Essentials

You're reading from   Jira 8 Essentials Effective project tracking and issue management with enhanced Jira 8.21 and Data Center features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232652
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Jira
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jira Data Center FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Jira for Business Projects 4. Part 2: Jira in Action
5. Chapter 3: Using Jira for Agile Projects 6. Chapter 4: Working with Issues 7. Chapter 5: Field Management 8. Chapter 6: Screen Management 9. Part 3: Advanced Jira
10. Chapter 7: Workflow and Business Process 11. Chapter 8: Emails and Notifications 12. Chapter 9: Securing Jira 13. Chapter 10: Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 14. Chapter 11: Jira Service Management 15. Chapter 12: Jira and Third Party Apps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Customizing Jira with scripts

The apps we have looked at so far are all prepackaged, purpose-built solutions that are designed to provide specific functions. These are great as they provide solutions for common problems people would have or features that everyone needs.

However, sometimes you have requirements that are not covered by any apps that are available on the Atlassian Marketplace. Now you can create a custom app for that, but often you simply need a custom field that captures or displays data in a specific way, or a workflow validator that has some specialized business logic. In these cases, you can use an app called ScriptRunner.

ScriptRunner is an app that brings scripting capabilities into Jira. If you know how to write Groovy scripts, ScriptRunner will let you create custom fields, workflow components such as validators, and post functions defined by your own Groovy scripts. This way, you can implement these components with your own business logic, without having...

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