Re-ordering issue operations in the View Issue page

In the previous chapter, we have seen how to create new issue operations. All the existing issue operations in JIRA have a predefined order associated with them. Currently, in JIRA, the actions are ordered as shown in the following screenshot:

In this recipe, we will see how we can re-order those actions without actually doing any coding! For example, let's assume we want to move Delete as the first option in the list and then move the subtask operations up the chart.

How to do it...

The following is the step-by-step process to reorder the issue operations:

1. Go to the system-issueoperations-plugin.xml file residing under the WEB-INF/classes folder. This is the file where all the issue operations are defined.

2. Modify the weight attribute on the relevant plugin modules to order them.

   weight is the attribute that defines the order of JIRA web fragments. Issue operations post JIRA 4.1.x are stored as web fragments and hence are reordered using...