Jira Plugin Manual

Jira Plugin

The Jira plugin is an XL Release plugin that allows XL Release to interact with a Jira Server.

The Jira plugin comes with two task types:

• Create Issue: Create a new Jira issue.
• Update Issue: Update a Jira issue to change its status or to post a comment.

Create Issue

Input Properties:

• Server is the Jira Server that will be used.
• Username is the Jira username. This property and the Password properties are optional, if set they override the credentials defined on the Server Configuration.
• Password is the Jira password.
• Project is the Jira project name.
• Title is the issue title.
• Description is the issue description.
• Issue Type is the issue type (Bug, Improvement, Feature...) See Jira Issue Types documentation

Output Properties:

• issueId is the ID of the created issue.

Update Issue

Input Properties:

• Server is the Jira Server that will be used.
• Username is the Jira username. This property and the Password properties are optional, if set they override the credentials defined on the Server Configuration.
• Password is the Jira password.
• Issue Id is the ID of the issue to update.
• New Status is the new status of the issue. See Jira Workflow documentation.
• Comment is the comment text that will be added when updating the issue.

Servers configuration

Jira servers are defined globally in the Configuration page.

A Jira Server has the following properties :

• Title is the name of the Jira Server. This name will be shown in the Jira Tasks.
• Url is the Jira Server URL.
• Username is the username used to connect to this server.
• Password is the username used to connect to this server.