This is my version's summary of those key components in Jira. If you are new to Jira, this might be a good starting point to understand Jira from a high level.Project - a project is a collection of many issues that are all related to a project.Issues - issues are the building blocks for a … Continue reading Understanding Jira project, issues, fields, screens, schemes and workflow
Both Jira and Confluence run on the Tomcat, it is critical for a Jira and Confluence system administrator to understand how Tomcat works. And what those paramaters mean in the server.xml? How to monitor the JMX metric to decide whether the server is healthy or not. I found a blog article on Data Dog website … Continue reading Jira and Confluence System Administrator Must Read
Just remember to add 'includeFutureSprints=true' if you need to find out the future Sprint. By default, it is only up to current Active sprint. Here is a nodejs sample: https://gist.github.com/jc1518/8c0605f9620b976d6ceede659d5b280c
By default the archived Confluence space won't be listed the search results in the Confluence UI. This also applies to CQL. If you want to include the archived space in your CQL query result, then you need to add includeArchivedSpaces=true in your CQL query. For example, I want to find out all Confluence spaces (including … Continue reading Use includeArchivedSpaces parameter in CQL
Second issue that I have found after upgrade my mac to Mojave is that Git stops working. When run git in terminal, it throws the error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun This means the command line tools of Xcode is not working properly. It needs either reset or update. … Continue reading Git broken after Upgrade to Mojave (10.14.5)
Finally I have decided to upgrade my current High Sierra to Mojave to get newer version of Xcode and also to support the multiple monitors with Targus USB-C dock station. I have heard people had various issues after upgrade to Mojave, so I am a bit unsure it is worth doing it. It took me … Continue reading Cannot Connect to App Store after Upgrade to Mojave (10.14.5)
In JQL, you can find issues that have values in a custom field or not by using: "<customfield_name>" IS EMPTY "<customfield_name>" IS NOT EMPTY But what if the issues has no such custom field? For example, we recently added a new custom field that is called 'division' to help us to understand where the work … Continue reading How to find Jira issues have no certain custom field
