Re-ordering Issue Operations in the View Issue page

In the previous chapter, we have seen how to create new issue operations. All the existing issue operations in JIRA have a predefined order associated with it. Currently, in JIRA, the actions are ordered as shown in the following screenshot:

In this recipe, we will see how we can reorder those actions with out actually doing any coding! For example, let us assume we want to move Delete option to first in the list and then move the subtask operations up the chart!

How to do it...

Following is the step-by-step process to reorder the issue operations:

1. Go to the system-issueoperations-plugin.xml residing under the WEB-INF/classes folder. This is the file where all the issue operations are defined.

2. Modify the weight attribute on the relevant plugin modules to order them.

   weight is the attribute that defines the order of JIRA web fragments. Issue operations post JIRA 4.1.x are stored as web fragments and hence are reordered using weight.

   Prior to JIRA...