Adding a new drop-down menu on the top navigation bar

In this recipe, we will show how to use the web section and web item modules quickly to add a new drop-down menu in JIRA's top navigation bar.

How to do it...

Here we need a web item first to be placed in the system's top navigation bar and then have a web section declared under it. The web section can then have a list of web items created under it that will form the links on the drop-down menu.

To do this, carry out the following steps:

1. Create a new web item under the system's top navigation bar:

   <web-item key="jtricks-menu" name="JTricks Menu" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="150">
     <description>J Tricks Web site</description>
     <label>J Tricks</label>
     <tooltip>J Tricks Web site</tooltip>
     <link linkId="jtricks-menu">http://www.j-tricks.com</link>
   </web-item>

   As you can see, the section is system.top.navigation.bar. It can have a link that is pointed to somewhere...