How to distinguish Epics from Issues on Board

[Margriet Kapteyn]

I have created a new project based on the Business project template. In the project I created an Epic (ISO-1) and an Issue (ISO-2, linked to that Epic).

On the board it shows both the Epic and the Issue, and there is no distinction between the two. Ideally I would like the Epic to show somehow that it is an Epic, and the Issue to show that it is an Issue related to the Epic. Either through different colours, field values, a label of the type, doesn't matter what at this stage. 

Any ideas how I can change the appearance of these cards? An alternative solution would be to only show Issues (and hide Epics completely on the board), that would also be acceptable to me. 
etc. 

[Deleted user]

Ideally, it should point to where your JAVA (version 8) is installed. What environment do you have? Try to locate it or "which" it or search it 

Note: There's a feature to ship Atlassian products with its own JDK, I'm not sure if it was implemented in JIRA 7.

[James Groff]

which returns /bin/java

Thanks Gabrielle.  I am installing on centos 7  using the .bin installer which does install open jdk version 1.8.0_71.

so I edit the /etc/environment file to have the line $JAVA_HOME=/bin/java then correct?

Thanks for your time.

[Yagnesh Bhat]

It should be the folder where your jdk is located. In CentOS, I think its something like /usr/lib/jvm/<jdk folder name>. Basically you need to make sure that this folder has the javac and java executibles.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

For the path, the JAVA_HOME should be set to the base installation of the whole Java installation.  You've run "which java" which tells you what java runs according to your path, but that's not the installation.  If you try "ls -l /bin/java", you'll find it's actually a symbolic link to somewhere else (and often, the target is also a symbolic link).  You need to follow those to the end point, which will be something like /usr/share/jvm/oracle_java_1.8.16/bin/java.  The base install is (usually) the directory above the bin, so for my example, you'd set it to /usr/share/jvm/oracle_java_1.8.16

But as Gabrielle says, if you've used the installer, it should have done all the work for you - java home being set by the scripts it's built for you!