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Introduction
JIRA administrators often need to implement sophisticated workflows that go beyond the built-in capabilities of JIRA. The JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions add-on provides extensions that help you to design advanced workflows.
The add-on provides advanced Conditions, Validators and Post-functions to achieve this purpose with no programming skills. You can tailor your JIRA workflows to meet your need needs and reduce the manual user intervention on actionsissues.
For information on the features, see: Workflow Extensions
Objective and Scope
The objective of this document is to give you a detailed explanation of how to install and use the add-on. After reading this document, you will be able to install the add-on , on your local server, uninstall it (if needed), and customize your JIRA workflows using the features provided in the add-on.
This document is intended for JIRA administrators. It covers the following sections.:
| Section Name | Description | JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions Plugin documentationExplains the scope and objective of the document | |
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| Explains the installation and uninstallation of the plugin. | |||
| JMWE administration pages | Lists the JMWE administration pages | ||
| how to install and uninstall the add-on | |||
| Explains the features of the plugin. | |||
| Writing Groovy scripts | Explains what is needed and how to write Groovy scripts | ||
| Groovy editor in JMWE | Explains the Groovy editor | ||
| Groovy script tester in JMWE | Explains the Groovy tester | ||
| Workflow Conditions | JMWE workflow Conditions you can use in your workflow transitions | ||
| Workflow Validators | JMWE workflow Validators you can use in your workflow transitions | ||
| Workflow Post-functions | JMWE workflow Post-functions you can use in your workflow transitions | ||
| Placing post-functions in a transition | How to position JMWE post-functions relative to other post-functions | ||
| Expected value for each field type | Explains the expected value type of value expected by post-functions for each field type | ||
| Going further with Groovy scripts | Explains how you can use Groovy scripts to further customize your workflows | ||
| JMWE administration pages | JMWE Configuration, Groovy script tester | ||
| Use Cases | Lists and explains the use cases for the extensions provided by the add-on | ||
| Troubleshooting and support for JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions | Explains the troubleshooting and support options for the add-onJMWE | ||
| Information about each JMWE for JIRA Server version |
Documentation conventions
This table below lists the documentation conventions used in this guide.
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Monospace | Input Field names and values | ||
Monospace and Bold | JIRA Field names and values | ||
| Bold and > | Menu Selection | ||
| Bold | Menu and Sub Menu Screens | ||
| Italic | JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions Plugin Highlighted terms or context | ||
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| Tips, warnings, suggestions and additional information | ||
| Link in Blue | Internal pages | ||
| Link in Blue and Bold | External pages | ||
| Built-in transition/status | Bold | ||
| User created transition/status | Italic and Bold |