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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466860

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Ravi Sagar

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Planning Your JIRA Installation

2. Searching in JIRA FREE CHAPTER

3. Reporting – Using Charts to Visualize the Data

4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management

5. Understanding Zephyr and its Features

6. Sample Implementation of Use Cases

7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles

8. Configuring JIRA User Directories to Connect with LDAP, Crowd, and JIRA User Server

9. JIRA Add-On Development and Leveraging the REST API

10. Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration

11. Working with Agile Boards in JIRA Software

12. JIRA Administration with ScriptRunner and the CLI Add-on

13. Database Access

14. Customizing Look, Feel, and Behavior

15. Implementing JIRA Service Desk

16. Integrating JIRA with Common Atlassian Applications and Other Tools

17. JIRA Best Practices

18. Troubleshooting JIRA

Velocity templates

Velocity is a Java-based, server-side template engine used to render page content that allows Java objects to be used alongside HTML elements. As JIRA has been written in Java, it utilizes Velocity templates to display the content. These template files can be modified by the user. However, Atlassian will not provide any support for such changes to the template files; therefore, I recommend taking a backup of the original files before making any changes to them.

In this section, let's discuss a few examples where we will make changes to these templates.

Modifying the description system field with predefined text

JIRA allows you to add a description for every custom field, where some instructions on how to enter the data can be given to the end user. However, it's sometimes useful to present the user with a predefined text, which is like a text-based template. In this example, we will add some default text in the JIRA Description system field. Perform the following...