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JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook This book is your one-stop resource for mastering JIRA extensions and customizations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782169086
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Plugin Development Process 2. Understanding the Plugin Framework FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Custom Fields 4. Programming Workflows 5. Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA 6. The Power of JIRA Searching 7. Programming Issues 8. Customizing the UI 9. Remote Access to JIRA 10. Dealing with the JIRA Database 11. Useful Recipes Index

Jelly escalation


Before winding up this chapter, let us have a quick look at how we can use one of the useful features of JIRA to escalate inactive issues by transitioning them to a predefined workflow status.

Jelly Service is a built-in service in JIRA which we can use to run useful Jelly scripts at regular intervals. Atlassian explains in its documentation (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Jelly+Escalation) about running a Jelly script to move issues that were not updated in the last 7 days to an inactive status. Note that it is 7 calendar days and not business days. JIRA has no concept of business days, out of the box.

Let us have a look at this recipe on how to modify the script and transition issues into different workflow statuses.

Getting ready

Make sure Jelly is turned on in your JIRA instance. It is disabled by default due to security concerns. You can turn it on by setting the jira.jelly.on property to true.

You can set the property by adding -Djira.jelly.on=true into...

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