Adding new tabs in the Browse Version screen

In this recipe, we will see how to add a new tab in the Browse Version screen. This screen holds details of a particular version in JIRA.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using the Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create a new version tab panel. It is very similar to creating a new project tab panel, except for the obvious changes in the files and keywords involved.

1. Define the version tab panel in atlassian-plugin.xml:

   <version-tabpanel key="jtricks-version-panel" i18n-name-key="versionpanels.jtricks.name" name="jtricks Version Panel" class="com.jtricks.JTricksVersionTabPanel">
     <description>A sample Version Tab Panel</description>
     <label>JTricks Panel</label>
     <order>900</order>
     <resource type="velocity" name="view" location="templates/version/version-panel.vm" />
   </version-tabpanel>

   Here, the plugin module has a unique key attribute and should...