Chapter 10. General Administration

JIRA is a very powerful and flexible application. You have seen how you can customize its functionalities by building new fields, screens, workflows, notifications, and permission rules. Apart from the major areas we have covered up until now, there are some other useful features that you can customize.

You can change the appearance of JIRA, so that its look and feel will be more consistent with other web applications that you have in your organization. You can also select the language JIRA will use to display its content, perform quick backups, and restore with the built-in tools. Finally, we will take a look at how you can extend the power of JIRA through custom add-ons.

In this chapter, we will cover the following ...

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