Install the Coveo plugin for Jira Software

This is for:

Developer System Administrator

To complete the capabilities of its Jira Software Data Center source, Coveo offers a plugin on the Atlassian Marketplace.

You must install it to support issue-level permissions. See Atlassian’s documentation for more information on issue-level security.

Install the plugin

  1. Log in to your Jira Software Data Center instance using a Jira administrator account.

  2. In the navigation bar at the top, click Apps, and then Manage apps.

  3. In the search bar, enter Coveo REST API for Jira.

  4. Locate the Coveo REST API for Jira plugin, and then click Install.

  5. In the Confirm app installation box that appears, review Coveo’s privacy policy and terms of use.

  6. Click Accept & install to launch the installation process. Once it’s done, a message appears to confirm that the plugin is ready to use.

Once the plugin is installed on your Jira Software Data Center instance, you can add a source to index its content.

What does the plugin do?

Coveo’s plugin is designed to respect your security policies and ensure that your data is safe. It’s a read-only plugin built using the Atlassian Plugin SDK to allow Coveo to index issue-level permissions. It doesn’t modify your instance in any way.

Coveo’s plugin is needed to index issue-level permissions because the Jira REST API doesn’t provide this information. So, when indexing permissions, you should install the plugin on your Jira Software Data Center instance to ensure that all permission types are indexed.

Without the plugin, Coveo automatically supports all other permission types, that is: group & user, project, application role, attachments, comments (when they’re indexed as individual items), and time tracking.

See Atlassian’s documentation for more information on issue-level security.