Adding new tabs in the Browse Project screen

In this recipe, we will see how to add a new tab in the BrowseProject screen using the project-tabpanel module.

Note

The use of this module is deprecated in JIRA 7 but we still have it in the book for the sake of plugins in older versions or to help plugin migrations to JIRA7.

Getting ready

Create a new skeleton plugin using Atlassian Plugin SDK.

How to do it...

Following are the steps required to create a new project tab panel:

1. Define the Project Tab Panel in the atlassian-plugin.xml:

           <project-tabpanel key="jtricks-project-panel" 
           i18n-name-key="projectpanels.jtricks.name" 
           name="Project Tab Panel" 
           class="com.jtricks.ui.tabs.JTricksProjectTabPanel">
               <description>A sample Project Tab Panel</description>
     ...