change jira homepage

[arno]

Hi All

  Recently, we need to deploy a jira server separately for overseas colleagues to use. We want to change the login information of jira and add some guidance files to display in the form of hyperlinks. Is there any way to replace the part in the figure with the hyperlinks I need to add, or add the hyperlinks separately?

[Radek Dostál]

This might be of interest to you: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-remove-jira-version-and-node-id-from-the-footer-of-jira-pages-1019395064.html

Personally, I wouldn't change the footer file because it's just a change which is annoying to document / backup, etc., you might need to re-do it again after upgrades and such. Although it certainly is an option and is a perfectly valid approach, just can be annoying to deal with later.

It might be worthwhile to tinker with announcement banner to modify it with javascript (adding/replacing elements), there should be sufficient id's/classes to make it work without affecting other stuff.

Once that is good then it's more performant to store that as a file, and just load up that file from announcement banner instead - because then your reverse proxy can cache it as a static file, rather than serving each page request with the announcement banner content (while it still will do it, it will just contain a reference to the js download, and the download can then be cached both reverse proxy as well as client side, so less data to transfer).

E.g.:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/custom_footer.js"></script>