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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently administer, customize, and extend your JIRA 7 implementation

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888441
Length 264 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JIRA Server Administration 2. Customizing JIRA for Your Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. JIRA Workflows 4. User Management 5. JIRA Security 6. E-mails and Notifications 7. Integrations with JIRA 8. JIRA Troubleshooting 9. JIRA Service Desk

Capturing additional information during workflow transitions

When users execute a workflow transition, we have an option to display an intermediate workflow screen. This is a very useful way of collecting some additional information from the user. For example, the default JIRA workflow will display a screen for users to select the Resolution value when the issue is resolved.

Tip

Issues with resolution values are considered completed. You should only add the Resolution field to workflow screens that represent the closing of an issue.

Getting ready

We need to have a workflow to configure, such as the Simple Workflow that was created in the previous recipe. We also need to have screens to display; JIRA's out-of-the-box Workflow Screen and Result Issue Screen will suffice, but if you have created your own screens, they can also be used.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to add a screen to a workflow transition:

  1. Select the workflow to update, such as our Simple Workflow.
  2. Click on the...
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