Adding new tabs in the Browse Component screen

In this recipe, we will see how to add a new tab in the Browse Component screen. This screen holds details of a particular component in JIRA, and the process of adding a new tab is much similar to adding a new version tab or project tab panel.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create a new component tab panel.

1. Define the Component Tab Panel in the atlassian-plugin.xml.

   <component-tabpanel key="jtricks-component-panel" i18n-name-key="componentpanels.jtricks.name" name="jtricks Component Panel" class="com.jtricks.JTricksComponentTabPanel">

     <description>A sample Component Tab Panel</description>
     <label>JTricks Panel</label>
     <order>900</order>
     <resource type="velocity" name="view" location="templates/component/component-panel.vm" />
   </component-tabpanel>

   As in the case of a version tab panel, component tab panel...