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So add-on development is not supported in cloud?

Paul Cinnamond2

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Add-ons and plugins

This article sounds like a marketing way to disguise the only way for devs to customize JIRA cloud instances is with Atlassian Connect. Atlassian Connect would actually be useful if you could bundle and host from within JIRA. Uploading bundled Atlassian Connect projects directly to JIRA seems like low hanging fruit if it already supports external sources.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'm not sure they're "disguising" anything. If you want to extend or customise Cloud beyond the options in the basic offering (and limited range of options), you need to do it with Connect add-ons - they've said that from day one of Cloud.

Sadly, despite "Connect being the way forward", it's not available for Server versions. Which does kind of break the idea that it's useful as the way forward for most users.

Paul Cinnamond2

Maybe this should be separate question but does this mean if you want to add a few custom links to a menu in JIRA cloud you have to host a separate website with that html fragment? I still think connectors are really integration points and not add-ons. It is confusing with add-ons/plugins in JIRA server and then these external integrated services in cloud.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, it's a good place to ask, it's certainly related!

The answer is maybe - Connect add-ons can add things to the UI, but they can't get into the depths of JIRA like type-2 add-ons. Everything they do has to be on the surface and act via REST. Specifically for adding links in the UI, I don't actually know - I've not tried to write a Connect add-on that does that yet.

Connect add-ons aren't just connectors though, they can work entirely within a Cloud system.

Paul Cinnamond2

Thanks. I did create a connector to add menu items and it works fine (based on tutorial provided by Atlassian). The problem is we have no official place to host the connector and it is overkill to host an external website to serve up a few menu items. When you say connectors can work entirely within a Cloud system, does that mean Atlassian allows the obviously needed support of uploading a connector bundled with the custom html and javascript?