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JIRA Development Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA Development Cookbook Develop and customize plugins, program workflows, work on custom fields, master JQL functions, and more to effectively customize, manage, and extend JIRA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681803
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobin Kuruvilla Jobin Kuruvilla
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Plugin Development Process FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Plugin Framework 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 a Database 11. Useful Recipes Index

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. A link will typically go under a web section. A link 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.

  2. We have already seen how to create a new web section. A link is then added into a section created as above 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 of the web section in which it should appear.

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

  3. Add the new web item module into the atlassian-plugin.xml.

    <web-item key="jtricks...
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