Jira 8 Administration Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

Jira uses an event system where every issue operation, such as creating a new issue or workflow transition, will trigger a corresponding event to be fired. As we have seen, notification schemes map events to notification recipients. This way, we are able to set up flexible notification rules to notify different people for different events.

Jira provides many different notification recipient types. Some, such as Current Assignee and Reporter, are very simple—they will simply take the value of the current issue's assignee and reporter field respectively. Other options, such as User Custom Field Value, can be very flexible. For example, you can create a multi-user picker custom field, and for each issue, you can have a different ...