Installing AtlasBits

The following steps tell you how to install AtlasBits. It basically boils down to copying the jar into your web application, but here are the detailed instructions:

  1. Get a Jira release
  2. Download the latest AtlasBits release
  3. If you downloaded the standalone version, follow these steps:
    1. Install Jira according to the manual . We'll call the installation directory $JIRAHOME
    2. Copy the AtlasBits jar into the "$JIRAHOME/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib" directory.
  4. If you downloaded the WAR/EAR version, follow these steps:
    1. Unpack the Jira distribution into a directory. We'll call this directory $JIRAHOME
    2. Copy the AtlasBits jar into the "$JIRAHOME/edit-webapp/WEB-INF/lib" directory
    3. Install Jira according to the manual
  5. Configure Jira according to the manual
  6. See the Usage page on how to configure and use the plugin.

Upgrading AtlasBits

To upgrade the plugin, please follow these instructions before installing the new version:
  1. Remove the old jar from your WEB-INF/lib directory.
  2. Follow the version specific upgrade instructions below.

Upgrading from 1.0-beta-2 or earlier

There was a typo in the plugin descriptor. To correct this, run the following SQL command on your database:
  1. update customfield set CUSTOMFIELDTYPEKEY="net.sourceforge.atlasbits.jira.order:ordertype" where CUSTOMFIELDTYPEKEY="net.sourceforge.atlasbits.jira.orde:order"