IDEA Jira plugin allows to do a lot of day to day Jira operations directly from within IDEA.
Amongst other things, it allows to
- view project issues
- update issue
- create new issue
User guide
Watch this video guide
Setup
Download the plugin from the Plugin Manager, restart IDEA and follow these steps:
- From the IDE Settings/Jira Configuration, add a server
- Enter server settings and add the xplanner project as below (in this picture we already added xplanner in the background and are trying to add it again)

- Select some columns to see
proxy settings
Apparently as of IDEA 5.0.1RC2 and JIRA plugin 0.1.7.4, we need to set our proxy setting (unfortunately including password info as well) into the the vmoptions file.
Append the following lines to IDEA_HOME/bin/idea.exe.vmoptions:
For Sabre for example it will be
Usage
In a editor, right click and select one of the item of the JIRA menu.
The result will show up in a [new] JIRA tool window.