Installing Power Actions® for Jira

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Last updated: Oct 21, 2021 by Jonathan Muse
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Requirements

Power Actions® 4.0 is only compatible with Jira versions higher than or equal to 7.0.0. In order to use it, the JDK version must be at level 8.

The version 4.0.0 bundles the SIL® Engine and Warden apps and it's upward compatible, which means that it works with any 4.x version of the dependencies. For further explanation, see the Installation Notes chapter.

Installing directly from the Atlassian Marketplace

If you are connected to the Atlassian Marketplace website from your Jira administration console, you can install our apps directly from the Marketplace. For more information, see Installing add-ons and Universal Plugin Manager pages.

  1. Log into your Jira as Admin.
  2. In the cog wheel menu, go to Add-ons.
  3. In the search field of the Find new add-ons section, search for Power Actions® for Jira.

For more information, see Atlassian documentation on installing apps.
This installation method is the quickest way. You can also install by file upload, as described in the next section.

Installing by file upload

  1. Download the Power Actions® file from the Atlassian Marketplace.
  2. Log into your Jira as Admin.
  3. From Jira administration console, click the Manage add-ons link.
  4. Click Upload add-on and select the file you downloaded, and click Upload.
  5. (Optional, but highly recommended) Enable logging on our modules.
    To do that, 

    1. Open the Jira log4j configuration file: JIRA_INSTALL_DIR/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.propertieswith a text editor of your choice and add the following lines at the end of it.
      log4j.logger.com.keplerrominfo=INFO,
      filelog log4j.additivity.com.keplerrominfo=false 

    2. Restart Jira.


Installation Notes

Power Actions® consists of the following Jira apps:

  1. Warden app — responsible for licensing of the Cprime products.
  2. SIL® Engine — provides all SIL® functionalities and common services built over Jira
  3. Power Actions® app — contains the app functionality itself

SIL® Engine and Warden are shared across our power portfolio products. If you disable any of those, the functionality built on top of them will stop working. We recommend that you install SIL® Engine updates as soon as they appear.

What should I do if I installed an incompatible version?

  1. Uninstall Power Actions® for Jira.
  2. Uninstall the Warden app.
  3. Uninstall the SIL® Engine app.

  4. Install the necessary version of the Power Actions®, the one compatible with your Jira.
    SIL® Engine and Warden should now have the right versions as well.

  5. Check any dependent app, such as Power Scripts™ for Jira or Power Custom Fields®, etc. Note that these apps must be re-enabled manually.

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