Adding new issue operations
In this recipe, we will look at adding new operations to an issue. The existing issue operations include Edit Issue, Clone Issue, and so on, but most of the time, people tend to look for similar operations with variations or entirely new operations that they can perform on an issue.
Prior to JIRA 4.1, the issue operations were added using the Issue Operations Plugin Module (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Issue+Operations+Plugin+Module). But since JIRA 4.1, new issue operations are added using the Web Item Plugin Module (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Item+Plugin+Module).
A Web Item Plugin module is a generic module that is used to define links in various application menus. One such menu is the issue operations menu. We will see more about the web items module and how it can be used to enhance the UI later in this book. In this recipe, we will only concentrate on using the web-item module to create issue operations.
