Administration UI locations

Top navigation bar

The system.admin.top.navigation.bar location defines web sections that are shown in the navigation bar on Administration page and in drop-down.

There are few predefined sections.

Creating a new section in predefined tab

The admin_plugins_menu location defines web sections and items in the Add-ons tab of Jira administration area. We will use this location for example.

The following module definition steps show how to add one or more items in the Add-ons tab sidebar, each of which leads to a single page.

1. Define one or more web-section modules for the Add-ons sidebar.

2. Each of these web-section modules must include:

   • A key attribute with a unique value.
   • A location attribute with the value "admin_plugins_menu".
   • Optional. If you wish to create a "section label" that appears in bold text at the top of the section, define a label element with a key attribute whose value defines a unique property. The string value of this unique property (defined in your app's i18n.properties file) will be shown in bold text at the top of your section.

   For example:

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   <web-section key="my_new_section" ... location="admin_plugins_menu" ...>
       ...
       <label key="my_new_section_name"/> <!-- This element is optional -->
       ...
   </web-section>
   

3. Define a web-item module for each item that appears in one of the web sections in the Plugins drop-down menu.

   • Each of these web-item modules must include a section attribute whose value is admin_plugins_menu, followed immediately by a slash symbol /, and followed immediately by the key attribute's value specified in the relevant web section module.

   For example:

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   <web-item key="my_new_tabbed_item" ... section="admin_plugins_menu/my_new_section" ...>
       <link linkId="my_new_tabbed_item_link_ID">/plugins/servlet/example</link>
       ...
   </web-item>
   

4. Define a meta element in your HTML template file (such as a Velocity template file) with the attribute name="admin.active.section".

   • This meta tag should contain a content attribute whose value is the section attribute's value specified in the web-item module you defined.

   For example:

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   <meta name="admin.active.section" content="admin_plugins_menu/my_new_section"/>
   

5. Define another meta tag in the HTML template file with the attribute name="admin.active.tab".

   • This meta tag should contain a content attribute whose value is the linkId attribute's value specified in the web-item's link that links to that page.

   For example:

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   <meta name="admin.active.tab" content="my_new_tabbed_item_link_ID"/>
   

6. To render your page with Administration layout, define a meta with content="decorator".

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   <meta name="decorator" content="atl.admin"/>
   

Creating a new section in custom tab

If you want to create a new custom tab, you should create a web-section with the system.admin.top.navigation.bar location. Then follow steps in previous section and use your custom tab key instead of admin_plugins_menu.

Customizing the positions of your own items and sections

To customize the position of your own web items or sections in this location, add a weight attribute to your web-item or web-section and adjust its value with respect to Jira's existing web items or sections. Lower weight values result in these items/sections appearing higher.

Source file

To find the values of Jira's existing web items and sections for the system.admin location, view the following file in Jira's source archive:
<source-installation-directory>/jira-project/jira-components/jira-core/src/main/resources/webfragment/system-admin-sections.xml

Existing web sections of the administration location

Projects

Issues

Add-ons

User Management

System

Maintaining administration area location compatibility across Jira versions

To ensure that web-items defined for Jira's administration area will remain compatible for different Jira versions, specify the following in your app:

1. Add a new IsPriorToJiraVersion Condition class to your app to identify if your Jira version is earlier than, for example, Jira 4.4. This class:

   • Implements com.atlassian.plugin.web.Condition
   • Returns a true value if your Jira version is found to be earlier than Jira 4.4.

2. Add a <condition/> element that calls your app's IsPriorToJiraVersion class to the web-item module defined for versions of Jira prior to 4.4. This condition:

   • Passes the version number of 4.4 to your app's IsPriorToJiraVersion class via child <parameter/> elements.
   • If a false value is returned by this class (because your version of Jira is later than 4.4), the web-item will be disabled and hence will not be visible in any drop-down menu of the Jira Administration area.

3. Add the IsPriorToJiraVersion Condition class to your app:

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   @Scanned
   public class IsPriorToJiraVersion implements Condition {
   
       private int maxMajorVersion;
       private int maxMinorVersion;
       private int majorVersion;
       private int minorVersion;
   
       public IsPriorToJiraVersion(@ComponentImport ApplicationProperties applicationProperties) {
           String versionString = applicationProperties.getVersion();
           String versionRegex = "^(\\d+)\\.(\\d+)";
           Pattern versionPattern = Pattern.compile(versionRegex);
           Matcher versionMatcher = versionPattern.matcher(versionString);
           versionMatcher.find();
           majorVersion = Integer.decode(versionMatcher.group(1));
           minorVersion = Integer.decode(versionMatcher.group(2));
       }
   
       public void init(final Map<String, String> paramMap) throws PluginParseException {
           maxMajorVersion = Integer.decode(paramMap.get("majorVersion"));
           maxMinorVersion = Integer.decode(paramMap.get("minorVersion"));
       }
   
       public boolean shouldDisplay(final Map<String, Object> context) {
           return (majorVersion < maxMajorVersion) || (majorVersion == maxMajorVersion) && (minorVersion < maxMinorVersion);
       }
   }
   

4. Add a condition that calls your app's IsPriorToJiraVersion class to your web-item module:

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   <web-item ... section="system.admin/globalsettings" ... >
       ...
       <condition class="package.qualified.name.to.your.plugins.class.IsPriorToJiraVersion">
           <param name="majorVersion">4</param>
           <param name="minorVersion">4</param>
       </condition>
       ...
   </web-item>