Quicksilver: jump to Jira issues
Currently I use that “Keyword” property of Firefox’s bookmarks to get me into the Jira projects I use at work quickly:
- Bookmark an issue in Jira: http://jira.company.com/browse/PROJ1-53
- Edit the new bookmark
- Give it a sensible name – “browse jira”
- Replace the Jira identifier with “%s”: http://jira.company.com/browse/%s
- Give it a short keyword. I normally use “j”.
Now you can simply type the following into Firefox’s location bar and jump straight to an issue: “j PROJ2-26″.
You still have to find Firefox and pop open a new tab and such. I was wondering if I could side-step this and use Quicksilver to jump directly into an issue. Note that this approach should work just fine with any other browser too.
Following the instructions over at coelomi’s blog I can now jump straight to a Jira issue with very little fuss. http://coelomic.wordpress.com/2006/01/02/quicksilver-tips/
- Enable the Web Search Quicksilver plugin.
- Copy the Jira url.
- Prepend the url with “qss-”.
- Replace the issue id with three stars “***”.
- Create a new trigger copying the url into the top box.
- Ensure the next box says “Search For” and the next box is empty.
- Assign a hot key for the trigger.
I now have the following triggers:
- Ctrl-Command-j: access any Jira issue – I provide Quicksilver with the full issue id.
- Ctrl-Command-r: access any Jira issue within a specific project – I provide Quicksilver only with the numeric part of the issue id – the project and the hyphen are hardcoded in the url.
- Ctrl-Command-b: same as the one above but for a different project.
- Ctrl-Command-g: A general google search.
- I’ll be adding another to perform a search on our wiki too.
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