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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466860

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Ravi Sagar

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Planning Your JIRA Installation

2. Searching in JIRA FREE CHAPTER

3. Reporting – Using Charts to Visualize the Data

4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management

5. Understanding Zephyr and its Features

6. Sample Implementation of Use Cases

7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles

8. Configuring JIRA User Directories to Connect with LDAP, Crowd, and JIRA User Server

9. JIRA Add-On Development and Leveraging the REST API

10. Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration

11. Working with Agile Boards in JIRA Software

12. JIRA Administration with ScriptRunner and the CLI Add-on

13. Database Access

14. Customizing Look, Feel, and Behavior

15. Implementing JIRA Service Desk

16. Integrating JIRA with Common Atlassian Applications and Other Tools

17. JIRA Best Practices

18. Troubleshooting JIRA

Synchronizing user and group information

Now that we have seen how to connect JIRA to LDAP, Crowd, and another JIRA server, it's also important to understand how the user information is synchronized. Any new user who is a part of the directory should be able to log in to a JIRA instance, but all new users who have recently been added to the directory will not be able to access JIRA until the user list is synchronized.

Go to JIRA Administration | User management | User Directories (under USER DIRECTORIES). Here, you will see the list of user directories added in the instance. There is a Synchronise link against each entry:

Synchronizing user and group information

Click on the Synchronise link and JIRA will compare and fetch the list of users from the JIRA server; if there are new users on the server, they will be created in the instance. This will also create the groups in our JIRA instance.

Note that the users created via this synchronization will not be editable, and you cannot delete them if the permission is set in the...