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JIRA 6.x Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA 6.x Administration Cookbook Over 100 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently administer, customize, and extend your JIRA 6 implementation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782176862
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JIRA Server Administration FREE CHAPTER 2. Fields and Screens 3. JIRA Workflows 4. User Management 5. JIRA Security 6. E-mails and Notifications 7. Integrating with JIRA 8. JIRA Administration 9. JIRA Customizations Index

Creating announcements in JIRA

This recipe shows you how to create system announcements in JIRA to display important messages to users.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to add an announcement message in JIRA:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | Announcement Banner.
  2. Enter the following announcement message (you can use any valid HTML, CSS, and JavaScript):
    <div class="aui-message warning">
        <span class="aui-icon icon-warning"></span>
        <p>JIRA will be down on <b>Friday 7PM</b> for a planned upgrade. Please make sure you save all your work.</p>
    </div>
  3. Select whether the message will be private (only shown to logged-in users) or public.
  4. Click on Set Banner to create the announcement:
    How to do it…

There's more…

The built-in system announcement feature is simple and handy to create ad-hoc announcement messages. Since you can use any valid HTML tags, you need to make sure you close your tags properly. Otherwise,...

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