This article aims to will show you how to integrate your GitLab project with the University of Waterloo Jira instance. The benefits of this integration include navigating to Jira issues quickly from GitLab, detect detecting and link linking to Jira issues from GitLab commits and merge requests, log logging GitLab events in the associated Jira issue, and automatically transition transitioning Jira issues with GitLab commits and merge requests. For more information visit the GitLab support documentation.
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In Jira select your initials in the top right of the page.
A menu will appear, select ‘manage account’
From the header menu select ‘Security'
On the security page, select ‘Create and manage API tokens’
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From the API Tokens page select ‘Create API token’
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Provide a label for the API token and select ‘Create’
An API token will be generated, select ‘Copy’ and then select ‘Close’
You will not be able to view the key in the future so ensure you have this copied before closing.
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Open your GitLab project
Select the project ‘Settings’ and then select ‘Integrations’
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