INSTRUCTIONS TO MIGRATE FROM JIRA6 (WAR DISTRIBUTION, NOW OBSOLETE) TO JIRA7 NEW BINARY DISTRIBUTION

First, make a backup of the database (jiradb) and import in the same server (or in different) with name of scheme “jira7db”. With this method you can rollback the process in two minutes and continue with the JIRA 6 version if the process fails. 1. Download the binary distribution: atlassian-jira-software-7.0.3-jira-7.0.3-x64.bin 2. execute ./atlassian-jira-software-7.0.3-jira-7.0.3-x64.bin 3. OK…

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Database Custom Fields with Kepler Plugin. Show a list of issues of one JIRA project in a Custom Field

1.- Install the plugin: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keplerrominfo.jira.plugins.keplercf 2.- Create a Custom Field of the new Type “Database Custom Field” 3.- Go to your apache-tomcat/conf/context.xml and add the Datasource (first you need to install the Database JAR Driver if it’s different database Oracle, MySQL,… for example in apache-tomcat/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.17.jar 4.- Restart Tomcat 5.- Go as Admin to –> JIRA –> Add-ons…

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