I would like to enter my project name (Eg; MYPRJ) in the browser and it should redirect me to the JIRA Project URL

[RamP]

I would like to know how if a user enter the project name (Eg; MYPRJ) in the browser and it should redirect to the JIRA Project URL?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It already does that - you put in https://yourjiraserver/jira/browse/MYPRJ

Although I suspect you want something different to that - you'll need to explain a little more - just "enter it in a browser" doesn't tell us what you are expecting to enter or where.

[RamP]

I have seen people just entering a project name (something like ANALYTICS) in the web browser and it actually re-directs them to something like - https://yourjiraserver/jira/browse/MYPRJ. Just wondering if this is something we can do within Jira?

[Steven F Behnke]

People are either using BROWSER shortcuts, (https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2630963?hl=en), they are typing the word and selecting the appropriate page in the Browser History, or they have DNS entries in their company that redirect you. It is NOT a jira function.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's usually because they have visited a project before and the browser is reading the cache and/or bookmark lists and guessing what they mean based on their history. Watch carefully next time someone does it - you will probably see the browser making suggestions as they type.

[Steven F Behnke]

Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Same here - I was typing as you posted I think.

[RamP]

Thanks guys. I think its the DNS entries probably that redirects. I am sure its not browser history or anything like that. The Project team sent an email to all the users (who has access to Jira Project) with instructions.

[Kelly Schoenhofen]

Side-question - how did Chrome get a custom search engine to our Jira instance? How did Jira do that, and how do I do it for Stash and Confluence? (i.e. the moment you type "jira" in Chrome, it turns into a Jira search box; say you type "jira foo-1234" it opens up the FOO-1234 issue).

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi,

Do you mean something like http://hackaday.com/2009/09/23/custom-shortcuts-from-firefox-address-bar/ ?

If you create a bookmark with https://yourjiraserver/browse/MYPRJ and set the keyword for the bookmark as MYPRJ you can just type MYPRJ in the browser (in this case Firefox) and the browser will redirect to the full URL.

Slightly different process for Chrome - http://lifehacker.com/5476033/how-to-set-keyword-bookmarks-in-google-chrome

Andrew.