Adding new web sections in the UI
A web fragment is a link or a section of links at a particular location of the JIRA web interface. It can be a menu in JIRA's top navigation bar, a new set of issue operations, or a new section in the Admin UI section.
There are two types of plugin modules to add new web fragments in JIRA, namely, the Web Section plugin module and the Web Item plugin module. A Web Section is a collection of links that is displayed together at a particular location of the JIRA user interface. It maybe a group of buttons on the issue operations bar or a set of links separated by lines.
In this recipe, we will see how to add a new web section to JIRA.
How to do it...
The following are the steps to add a new web section into JIRA:
Identify the location where the new sections should be added.
JIRA has a lot of identified locations in its user interface and it lets us add new web sections in any of these locations. A complete list of the available locations can be found at http://confluence...
