How I built a Forge application to map teams to boards in Jira

I previously published a post about a Forge application that I’d written called the "Issue Status Helper" and thought it might be useful to share another example of how I've used Forge to help Jira meet our specific project management needs.

This application has a number of similarities with the Issue Status Helper application but touches on a few different modules and capabilities that are worth exploring. In particular these are the new and improved UI Kit, Jira Custom Fields and GraphQL.

The application is called “Jira Board Buddy” and allows you to map teams to boards for a project and enforce that mapping for issues within the project. First let’s dive into the problem that I was using Forge to solve…