JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Operations using direct HTML links

How about a little tip on how we can do powerful operations in JIRA with a simple click on a link, from your e-mail, from a web form, or from within JIRA itself?

Almost all actions can be encoded into a single URL, provided we have the right parameters to invoke those actions. Make no mistake; it has its own disadvantages because, in some cases, this will override all the pre-processing, validations, and so forth.

The URL that performs the action is constructed in the following manner:

${baseUrl}/secure/${action}?${arguments}

Where baseUrl is the JIRA base URL, action is the webwork action to be executed, and arguments are the URL-encoded arguments needed for the action. The arguments are constructed as key value ...