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JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook

You're reading from   JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook This book is your one-stop resource for mastering JIRA extensions and customizations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782169086
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Plugin Development Process 2. Understanding the Plugin Framework FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Custom Fields 4. Programming Workflows 5. Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA 6. The Power of JIRA Searching 7. Programming Issues 8. Customizing the UI 9. Remote Access to JIRA 10. Dealing with the JIRA Database 11. Useful Recipes Index

Writing a simple custom field


In this recipe, we will see how to write a new custom field type. Once created, we can create a number of custom fields of this type on our JIRA instance that can then be used to capture information on the issues.

New custom field types are created with the help of the customfield-type module. The following are the key attributes supported:

Name

Description

key

This should be unique within the plugin

class

Must implement the com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType interface

i18n-name-key

The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module

name

Human-readable name of the web resource

The following are the key elements supported:

Name

Description

description

Description of the custom field type.

resource type="velocity"

Velocity templates for the custom field views.

valid-searcher

From JIRA 5.2, you can define a searcher in the custom field definition itself. This element is most useful when we have...

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