Adding new web items in the UI

A web item is a new link that can be added at various places in the JIRA UI. The link will typically go under a web section. It can simply point to a URL or can be used to invoke an action. In this recipe, we will see how to add a new web item to JIRA.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to add a new web item into JIRA:

1. Identify the web section where the new link should be added. We have already learned how to create a new web section. A link is then added into a section created as mentioned previously or into a predefined JIRA section. We can add the link directly to a location if it is a non-sectioned one. For sectioned locations, it is the location key, followed by a slash (/), and the key value of the web section in which it should appear.

   For example, if we want to place a link in the web section previously created, the section element will have the value admin_plugins_menu/jtricks-admin-section.

2. Add the new web-item module into the atlassian-plugin...