Installation
Prerequisites
To ensure a successful installation, the following checklist outlines the necessary prerequisites:
- You have administrative access to the Jira site targeted for the integration.
- You have the appropriate TechWolf API licenses.
- You have the appropriate SkillEngine API credentials, which include:
- Tenant ID
- Tenant secret
- Tenant name
- Region (Europe or United States)
- You have a TechWolf API tenant set up that contains the relevant employee
information necessary for the Jira Integration. A custom property called
jira_id
is added for all employees containing their Jira ID or a custom property calledemail
is added for all employees containing their email. - You have at least one active project on the specified Jira site.
Installation
Please read through all the steps carefully, every step must be followed and submitted for the Jira-TechWolf integration to work properly.
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Navigate to the Jira Marketplace from within your Jira site. On the top navigation bar, click Apps → Explore more apps.
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In the search box, type “TechWolf” and press enter. You should see the following results:
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Click on
TechWolf
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On the app’s page, click
Get app
in the upper right corner -
A window will appear displaying the app’s permissions. Click
Get it now
to install the TechWolf app. -
A popup will notify you that the app is being installed. After a short moment, a message will display: “TechWolf installed successfully.”
The TechWolf application has now been installed on your Jira site.
Finding the configuration page
On the configuration page, you will be able to submit your TechWolf credentials.
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Go to the Jira site where you installed the Jira-TechWolf app:
<your-site>.atlassian.net/jira
. -
In the upper selection menu of your site, select
Apps
. A dropdown menu will appear.
- Now, in the dropdown menu, click on
Manage your apps
.
You will be redirected to the apps settings page of your Jira site.
- In the side bar on the left, click on
TechWolf app settings
under theApps
tab.
You will be redirected to the settings page of the TechWolf app.
Configuring the connection to TechWolf via the SkillEngine API
After clicking on the TechWolf app settings
, you will land on the following
page:
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Under
SkillEngine API Credentials
, populate the form with your Techwolf credentials:tenant ID, Tenant secret, tenant name, region
If don’t have access to such credentials, please contact TechWolf support.
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Click
Confirm
in order for the credentials to be correctly stored.If this feedback message is shown:
You successfully established a connection with the TechWolf API.
If any other feedback is provided, something went wrong establishing the connection. Please follow the feedback’s instructions.
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If you want to use email addresses to map Employees in Jira to the correct Employee in the TechWolf API, then click on the toggle in the
Enable Email-Based ID Mapping
section.
Once correctly configured, there is no need to ever do this again except for when the app is deleted and reinstalled.
Once completed, the Jira TechWolf integration is successfully installed! Enjoy inferring skills. 🎉
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