Introduction

One of the many good things about JIRA is that it has a simple but powerful user interface. A lot has changed between the older versions and 7.x in terms of the user interface, and it still continues to be one that keeps the users happy and plugin developers interested.

While the existing JIRA interface works for many people, there are cases where we need to modify bits and pieces of it, add new UI elements, remove some, and so on.

Normally, when we think of modifying a web application's user interface, the first thought that comes to our mind is to go and modify the JSPs, VMs, and many others involved. While that is true, in some cases for JIRA as well, a lot of the user-interface changes can be introduced without even touching the JIRA code. JIRA helps us to do that with the help of a number of UI-related plugin modules.

In this chapter, we will be looking at various recipes for enhancing the JIRA UI with the various plugin modules available, and also, in some cases, by modifying...