This document discusses new features and capabilities in JIRA 7 and the JIRA Software API. It provides an overview of the following: - New ways to extend and customize JIRA projects using boards, sprints, agile reports, and other features - The JIRA Platform and JIRA Product APIs and how developers can build on them - Specific enhancements to the JIRA Software API like improved entity properties, custom JQL indexes, dashboard items, and pluggable permissions

1. DAVE MEYER • PRODUCT MANAGER
ATLASSIAN • @D_MEYER
Getting more from JIRA 7
New ways to extend and customize
FILIP ROGACZEWSKI • DEV LEAD
ATLASSIAN • @FROGACZEWSKI

3. PROJECT TYPES
Boards
Sprints
Agile reports
Software Service Desk
Queues
SLAs
Customer portal
KB integration
Focused JIRA projects
Business
Focused JIRA projects
Business
Focused JIRA projects
Business

4. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
9
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
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5. PROJECT TYPES
Boards
Sprints
Agile reports
Software Service Desk
Queues
SLAs
Customer portal
KB integration
Focused JIRA projects
Business
Focused JIRA projects
Business
Focused JIRA projects
Business

6. JIRA Platform
OBJECTS
SERVICES
FEATURES
Issues, custom fields, workflows
User management, search, permissions
Issue navigator, dashboards, view issue
APIs
+
UI plugin points

7. JIRA Product (Software)
ISSUE COLLECTIONS
CUSTOM OBJECTS
FEATURES
Boards, sprints
Epics
Releases
APIs
+
UI plugin points

8. Product API
Platform API
Framework
JIRA 7 API landscape

9. Get more from JIRAJIRA Software API
Agenda
APIs in the Cloud

10. JIRA Software is a product

11. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
9
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
JIRA Software API goals

12. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
9
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Architects

13. UI plugin points
CRUD primary objects
Boards, sprints, epics, and versions
Stable and reliable
JIRA Software
API goals

14. Boards
Add to the sidebar
Add web-item here
agile/1.0/board/sprint
agile/1.0/board/issue
webhook: sprint-closed

15. Backlog
Add to the sidebar
Add web-item here
agile/1.0/board/sprint
agile/1.0/backlog
webhook: sprint-created
Set custom sprint properties

16. Agile User
Story Map
Agile Poker for
JIRA

17. Private API goes away
Your requests
Estimation and sprint reordering
More APIs
Software API
future
1st of December is its last day

18. Get more from JIRAJIRA Software API
Agenda
APIs in the Cloud

19. Entity propertiesIssue properties

20. rest/api/2/issue/DEMO-1/properties

21. AND yourProperty

22. hasComments()

23. Custom JQL indexes with properties
{
"jiraEntityProperties": [
{
"keyConfigurations": [
{
"extractions": [
{
"objectName": "commentCount",
"type": "number",
"alias": "hasComments"
} ],
"propertyKey": “issue.comment"
}
],
"entityType": "issue",
"name": {
"value": "Comment Index Document"
}
}
]
}
Comment issue entity property with index

24. Custom JQL indexes with properties
Issue updated webhook
Your add-on
Is there a new comment?
/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/properties/{propertyKey}
{
"key": "issue.comments",
"value": 1
}
PUT to update issue.comments property

25. Custom JQL indexes with properties
Issue updated webhook Is there a new comment?
PUT to create a “hasComment” property
Updates commentCount index

26. How a platform API develops
OBJECT
SERVICE
FEATURE
Issue Entity property
JQL
extended by
extended by JQL indexing
Issue navigator extended by UI plugin pointComingsoon

27. Easy HTML
dashboard items

28. Easy HTML dashboard items
• Native Soy and JavaScript
• Render faster, look better
• Remote-ready
Old New

30. Pluggable
permissions

31. Pluggable permissions
{
"key" : “pluggable-connect-global-permission",
"name" : {
"value" : "Pluggable Connect Global Permission"
},
"description" : {
"value" : "Pluggable Connect Global Permission”
},
"anonymousAllowed" : false
}

32. More JIRA
to extend
Permissions
Dashboard items
JQL

33. Get more from JIRAJIRA Software API
Agenda
APIs in the Cloud

34. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
9
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
Add-ons are key to making JIRA
Cloud great
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35. 20152014
How we got here
JIRA Software API
Dashboard items
SOAP to REST
migration
JQL aliases
Atlassian Connect 1.0
Entity Properties

36. Here’s what you did in 2015
101

37. 20152014
What’s next
JIRA Software API
Dashboard items
SOAP to REST
migration
JQL aliases
Atlassian Connect 1.0
Entity Properties
2016
Performance
Event notifications
Workflow
REST API usability
Forward-looking statements could cause
actual results to differ materially from stated
plans.
Atlassian Legal

38. Help us make
Connect better
than P2

39. Keys to Connect
Get started
developer.atlassian.com/jiradev

40. Keys to Connect
Run your add-on
Prepare traffic and data usage estimates
Create step by step deployment scripts
Create application healthcheck
Monitor performance
Stream logs
Setup alerting
Separate your code from the data, design for scale
Prepare the disaster recovery plan
Simulate the recovery
Document your routine backups
Run tests against each new JIRA version
Release frequently

41. A whole lot of new customersSell it to millions
Keys to Connect

42. • Big cool statistic
• 2,56
9
• Add-Ons in Marketplace
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43. Thank you!