Object configurable parameters for reports

We have seen how to write JIRA reports and we also had a brief look at how JIRA lets us configure the input parameters. The example we have chosen in the previous recipe, on creating JIRA reports, explained the usage of the select type. In this recipe, we will see the various property types supported and some examples on how to configure them.

There are a number of property types supported in JIRA. The full list supported by your JIRA version can be found in the com.atlassian.configurable.ObjectConfigurationTypes class. For JIRA 4.2.*, the following are the types supported for reports:

Type	Input HTML type
string	Text Box
long	Text Box
hidden	NA. Hidden to the user.
date	Text Box with Calendar popup
user	Text Box with User Picker
text	Text Area
select	Select List
multiselect	Multi select List
checkbox	Check Box
filterpicker	Filter Picker
filterprojectpicker	Filter or Project Picker
cascadingselect	Cascading Select List. Dependant...