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Jira 8 Essentials

You're reading from   Jira 8 Essentials Effective project tracking and issue management with enhanced Jira 8.21 and Data Center features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232652
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Jira
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Jira Data Center FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Jira for Business Projects 4. Part 2: Jira in Action
5. Chapter 3: Using Jira for Agile Projects 6. Chapter 4: Working with Issues 7. Chapter 5: Field Management 8. Chapter 6: Screen Management 9. Part 3: Advanced Jira
10. Chapter 7: Workflow and Business Process 11. Chapter 8: Emails and Notifications 12. Chapter 9: Securing Jira 13. Chapter 10: Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 14. Chapter 11: Jira Service Management 15. Chapter 12: Jira and Third Party Apps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Issue linking

Jira allows you to create custom hyperlinks for issues. This allows you to provide more information about the issue. There are two types of links you can create: linking to other issues in Jira or linking to any arbitrary resources on the web, such as a web page.

Linking issues with other issues

Issues are often related to other issues in some way. For example, issue A might be blocking issue B, or issue C might be a duplicate of issue D. You can add descriptions to the issue to convey this information, or delete one of the issues in the case of duplication, but with this approach, it is hard to keep track of all these relationships. Luckily, Jira provides an elegant solution for this with the standard issue link feature.

The standard issue link lets you link an issue with one or more other issues in the same Jira instance. This means that you can link two issues from different projects together (if you have access to both projects). Linking issues in this way...

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