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...
