Configuring the Plugin

The 'Plugin Configuration Panel' displays the version number of the plugin that you are currently using and its SVN repository version.

You can also:

• Define the servers that the plugin connects to.
• Modify the behaviour of the plugin in certain situations.
• Report bugs and request new features for the plugin.
• Open online help on configuring the plugin (namely, this page).

On this page:

Accessing the Plugin Configuration Panel

Click the configuration icon on your plugin window. The 'Servers' tab of the 'Configuration Panel' will open, as shown in the screenshot below.

Reporting Bugs and Requesting New Features

Click the following links on the Configuration Panel:

• Report Bug ---- This will open a bug-creation page on the plugin's JIRA issue tracker. It will automatically populate the plugin version number and details of the environment (Java version and vendor, OS details, build number of IDEA in use).
• Request Feature — This will open an issue-creation page of the 'Story' type, used by the plugin team to track requests for new plugin functionality.

Configuring your Server Connections

Screenshot: Servers tab of the Plugin Configuration Panel

This tab is used to define servers that the plugin will connect to. The server is added by clicking on a "+" icon. After selecting the server type (Bamboo, Crucible or JIRA), you enter server name, server URL and your credentials. You can now test if the connection to the server works by clicking the "Test connection" button.

You have an option to remember your password on disk (it is stored in a Base64 encoding, so it is not really secure), or being asked for it on every start of IDEA.

For Bamboo servers, this tab also allows selecting build plans that the plugin will be watching . You can either select plans manually from the list of plans defined on the bamboo server, or simply use your favourite plans defined on the server.

You can enable or disable particular servers without deleting them. This is useful in case your servers are behind a firewall and you don't have access to them.

In order to remove a server from the list, select it and click the "-" icon.

Configuring the Plugin's Bamboo Options

Screenshot: Bamboo tab of the plugin configuration panel

The Bamboo tab is used to:

• define the polling interval that the plugin will use to monitor build plans on all defined Bamboo servers
• behaviour of the tooltip that is shown when the status of the build changes

Configuring the Plugin's Crucible Options

Screenshot: Crucible tab of the plugin configuration panel

The Crucible tab is used to define the polling interval that the plugin will use to monitor all defined Crucible servers

Configuring the Plugin's JIRA Options

Screenshot: JIRA tab of the plugin configuration panel

The JIRA tab is used to:

• define the polling interval that the plugin will use to monitor all defined JIRA servers (not used currently)
• determine whether a textual description of the JIRA issue type, status and priority should be shown next to their icons in in JIRA issue list

Configuring General Plugin Options

Screenshot: General tab of the plugin configuration panel

The General tab is used to:

• Enable or disable plugin auto-update feature and allow manual updates
• Enable or disable collection of anonymous plugin usage statistics. This feature is disabled by default. The user is asked to to decide whether she wants to participate in the statistics collection on the first opening of the plugin control panel. The only statistics that the plugin sends to Atlassian is a unique ID generated by the plugin on its first installation. No other information is collected.

Getting Help

• Help - opening the help page on configuring the plugin (namely this page)
  Support etc — see home page

RELATED TOPICS

IDE Plugin User Guide
IDE Plugin Documentation