Documentation for JIRA 4.3. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.
To create a JIRA issue, you will need to have the 'Create Issue' permission in the relevant project. If you don't have this permission, please contact your JIRA administrator.
To create a new JIRA issue:
To see a list of all issues that you have created, which have not yet been resolved, go to your user profile and click the 'Reported & Open' filter.
With appropriate configuration by your JIRA administrator, it is also possible to create issues via email.