Adding new panels in the project-centric view

In the previous recipe, we saw how to add simple links to the project-centric navigation. This is good enough for some cases, but what if we need to show a web panel with proper logic?

This is where we can add a web panel and link to the web panel from a web item, added in the project-centric navigation.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using AtlassianPluginSDK.

How to do it...

Following are the steps required to add a new web panel in the project-centric view.

1. Define a web panel using the web-panel plugin module, as shown here:

           <web-panel key="jtricks-projectcentric-panel-key" 
           location="com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:jtrickspanel"> 
               <resource type="velocity" name="view" 
               location="templates/project/project-panel...