Work with Perforce ALM items in Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud (legacy app versions)

If your team uses both Perforce ALM and Jira, you may be able to view ALM items attached to items in Jira and add new ALM items from Jira. Before you can work with ALM items in Jira, the administrator must install and configure the Perforce ALM for Jira app for your Jira instance. See the Perforce ALM Client documentation for information.

The information on this page applies to working with ALM items in Jira Data Center and legacy versions of the app (versions 1 and 2) in Jira Cloud. If your team uses version 3 or later of the app, see Work with ALM items in Jira Cloud. If you are not sure about the app version your team uses, contact your Jira administrator.

Attached items are displayed in the Perforce ALM Items section in Jira items.

You must be logged in to the ALM web client to view item information in Jira. If you are not logged in, click Log In in the Perforce ALM Items section in the Jira item.
  • To view the item details, click the item Tag or Summary. The item opens in the ALM web client.
  • To view attached items from a different ALM project, select the Project.
  • To narrow the number of items in the list, click an item type. Click All to view all item types.
  • To navigate between multiple pages of items, click the arrows.
  • To add a new ALM item and attach it to the Jira item, click Add and select the item type to add. See Adding Perforce ALM items from Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud (legacy app versions).

Perform actions from the Perforce ALM menu

You can also perform actions from the Perforce ALM menu in Jira.

Click Perforce ALM at the top of the page.

  • To change the project selected by default when you view ALM items attached to Jira items, click Perforce ALM and select Switch Project. The Switch Perforce ALM Project dialog opens. Select a project and click Switch.
  • To open ALM, click Perforce ALM and select Go to Perforce ALM. The ALM web client opens and displays the dashboard for the project. You may need to log in.
  • To log out, click Perforce ALM and select Log Out. Click Log Out to confirm logging out.