Chapter 3. Working with Custom Fields

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Writing a simple custom field

• Custom field searchers

• Dealing with custom fields on an issue

• Programming custom field options

• Overriding validation of custom fields

• Customizing change log value

• Migrating from one custom field type to another

• Making custom fields sortable

• Displaying custom fields on subtask columns on parent issue

• User and date fields from 4.1.x

• Adding custom fields to notification mails

• Adding help text for a custom field

• Removing the 'none' option from a select field

• Making the custom field project importable

• Changing the size of a text area custom field